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avocate

avocate verb: to call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal.

Verb

avocate (third-person singular simple present avocates, present participle avocating, simple past and past participle avocated)

  1. (obsolete) To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal.
    • Stage-playes and dancing avocate and with-hold men from Gods worſhip1632 (indicated as 1633), William Prynne, Histrio-mastix. The Players Scourge, or, Actors Tragædie, […], London: […] E[lizabeth] A[llde,] [Thomas Cotes, Augustine Matthews] and W[illiam] I[ones] for...
    • for what is a scholar, but one who retireth his person, and avocateth his mind from other occupations and worldly entertainmenta. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “Sermon LIV”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume III, London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1831, →OCLC, page 346

Forms of avocate

third-person singular presentavocates
present participleavocating
past participleavocated
pastavocated

Origin of avocate

Borrowed from Latin avoco, avocatus. Doublet of avoke.

Questions about avocate

What does avocate mean?
Avocate means to call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal.
What part of speech is avocate?
Avocate is a verb.
What is the past tense of avocate?
The past tense of avocate is avocated.

Words near avocate in the dictionary

  1. avocadoey
  2. avocadoless
  3. avocadolike
  4. avocados
  5. avocat
  6. avocate
  7. avocated
  8. avocates
  9. avocating
  10. avocation
  11. avocational

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