vocate

See also: voĉate

English

Etymology

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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.
   • 1818, Thomas Harris (Jr.), John McHenry, Maryland Reports:

     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.

   • 1840, Report of the Poor Law Commissioners to the Most Noble the Marquis of Normanby:

     Yet in the remote parishes it would be mearly impossible to find medical men of superior talent to vocate for want of adequate practice.

   • 1899, The Pacific Reporter - Volume 58, page 974:

     The congregation has the right and duty to vocate a pastor, who must be of the Evangelical Lutheran confession, to honor him, to submit to his official acts as long as they are based on the Word of God.

Anagrams

• avocet, octave

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

vocate

1. inflection of vocare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

vocate f pl

1. feminine plural of vocato

Anagrams

• covate, tacevo

Latin

Verb

vocāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of vocō

Participle

vocāte

1. vocative masculine singular of vocātus