avocate

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verb

To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal.

OriginLatin avoco, avocatus →
Scrabble 12
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Meanings

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

present singular third person avocates · participle present avocating · participle past avocated · past avocated

  1. obsoleteTo call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal.

    Stage-playes and dancing avocate and with-hold men from Gods worſhip

    1632 (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 Michael Sparke, […], →OCLC, 1st part, folio 539, verso
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    for what is a scholar, but one who retireth his person, and avocateth his mind from other occupations and worldly entertainment

    a. 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

Origin

  1. Latinavoco, avocatus
  2. Englishavocate

Borrowed from Latin avoco, avocatus. Doublet of avoke.

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APA

avocate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/avocate

MLA

“avocate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/avocate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “avocate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/avocate.

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