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avocates

avocates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of avocate.

Meaning of avocate

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...

Questions about avocates

What is avocates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Avocates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of avocate.

Words near avocates in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: avocates (page history and authors); avocate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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