avocate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin avoco, avocatus. Doublet of avoke.

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.
   • 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:

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

   • 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:

     for what is a scholar, but one who retireth his person, and avocateth his mind from other occupations and worldly entertainment

See also

• advocate

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.vɔ.kat/
• Rhymes: -at

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Noun

avocate f (plural avocates)

1. female equivalent of avocat

Further reading

• “avocate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

avocate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

avocate f pl

1. feminine plural of avocato

Anagrams

• evocata

Latin

Verb

āvocāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of āvocō

Romanian

Noun

avocate f

1. plural of avocată

Spanish

Verb

avocate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of avocar combined with te