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vocate

vocate verb: to appoint to a religious office.

Verb

vocate (third-person singular simple present vocates, present participle vocating, simple past and past participle vocated)

  1. (obsolete) To appoint to a religious office.
    • That if Mr. Henop, your present minister, should approve of the aforesaid vocation, your congregation be at perfect liberty to vocate any minister who is a member of the synod; as likewise the minister, being thus vocated, is authorised to accept the vocation.1818, Thomas Harris (Jr.), John McHenry, Maryland Reports
    • Yet in the remote parishes it would be mearly impossible to find medical men of superior talent to vocate for want of adequate practice.1840, Report of the Poor Law Commissioners to the Most Noble the Marquis of Normanby

Forms of vocate

third-person singular presentvocates
present participlevocating
past participlevocated
pastvocated

Questions about vocate

What does vocate mean?
Vocate means to appoint to a religious office.
What part of speech is vocate?
Vocate is a verb.
What is the past tense of vocate?
The past tense of vocate is vocated.

Words near vocate in the dictionary

  1. vocaloids
  2. vocals
  3. vocamine
  4. vocant
  5. vocants
  6. vocate
  7. vocated
  8. vocates
  9. vocating
  10. vocation
  11. vocational

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