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▪ I. † vocate, n. Obs.
Forms: α. 4–5 voket, 4–5 vokett-, 5 vokett, vokyte. β. 4 vok-, vocate, 5 vocat.
[Aphetic f. avoket, avocat advocate n.]
An advocate, in various senses.
α1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 5402 Ȝyf þou yn falsehede so moche ȝede,..To consente to a fals Iuggyng, Or hyredyst a voket to swyche þyng. 13..Propr. Sanct. (Vernon MS.) in Herrig Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LXXXI. 315/113 We han euer a good voket To foren his holi fader set. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. iii. 61 Were bede to þat brudale..vytailers and vokettus of þe Arches. 14..in Wr.-Wülcker 680/31 Hic causidicus, a vokyte. c1440Gesta Rom. lii. 372 (Add. MS.), Bi the foxe are vndirstondyn vokettes, prelates of causes temporall, courteers, Iurrours, and wily men. c1475Cath. Angl. 404/1 (A.), A Vokett, vbi A plettere.
β13..Cursor M. 20927 (Gött.) Paule, þat saul had first to nam..First he was þe iuus vocate [Cott. auocate], And syden he come till postil state. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. ii. 60 Were boden to þe bridaile..vitaillers and vokates of þe arches. 1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 4847 My wondys I geue.. To plete for hem when they ha nede..I make ther vocat of my blood. 14..in Wars Eng. in France (Rolls) II. 525 Receyvoures, Procutours, Vocatis. 1509Fisher Wks. (1876) 282 Our sauyour Ihesu is..a suffycyent vocate for vs before the face of his fader. a1513Fabyan Chron. vii. 516 A vocat named Peter Puyssour, and a felowe of his named maister John Godarde.
▪ II. † vocate, v. Obs.—1
[f. L. vocāt-, ppl. stem of vocāre to call.]
trans. To call or summon.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VII, 40 Your realme to the which you be bothe (as you saye) inheritoure, and by your people accercited and vocated vnto. |