avoke

English

Etymology

Compare avocate. Ultimately from Latin āvōcō, āvōcāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈvəʊk/

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• Rhymes: -əʊk

Verb

avoke (third-person singular simple present avokes, present participle avoking, simple past and past participle avoked)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To call from or back again.
   • 1679–1715, Gilbert Burnet, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of the Reformation of the Church of England., London: […] T[homas] H[odgkin] for Richard Chiswell, […]:

     And after our long communication and reasoning in the King's Highness Cause, which, at length, we have written to your Grace in our common Letter, for a confirmation of many inconveniences and dangers which we perswaded to his Holiness, to follow both to himself and to the See Apostolick, in case his Holiness should avoke the cause; […]

See also

• advoke

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “avoke”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)