avouchv.

Brit.

/əˈvaʊtʃ/, U.S.

/əˈvaʊtʃ/

Forms: Middle English–1500s auouche, avouche, Middle English–1600s auouch, auowch, 1500s auouche, 1500s–1600s advouch, 1600s auoch, Middle English– avouch.

Etymology: < Old French avochier, < Latin advocāre . In living use advocāre , by regular phonetic change, became in Old French avoer , avouer ; but as Latin continued in legal use, and the technical terms became to some extent popularized, advocāre , in its technical senses of ‘call upon as defender, guarantor,’ etc., was subsequently made French, as avochier , avocier , avoker , which thus became to a certain extent a more technical synonym of avoer ; so in English with avouch , avow . Compare vouch v.

I. To appeal or refer for confirmation to some warrant or authority.

†1. transitive. to avouch a thing upon (a person): to call or cite (a person) as warrant or authority for it; to prove, declare, or state it on his or her authority. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > attest, bear witness [verb (transitive)] > bring forward as evidence

to draw forthc1175

showa1325

drawc1330

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to avouch a thing upon (a person)1393

allegea1398

adduce?a1425

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recite1509

infera1529

vouch1531

cite1550

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quote1663

abduce1720

invoke1879

1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 295 And that I durst right wel avouche Upon her selfe, as for witnesse.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ciiii. f. xli I am in dought because of sayinge of Ranulphe Monke of Chestre, whiche auowchyth it vpon Wyllyam, wryter of Historyes of kynges.

†2. To certify (an account) by reference to, and comparison with, vouchers. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (transitive)] > enter in an account > other book-keeping procedures

control1422

avouch1539

allocate1551

respond1588

score1592

carry1652

post1707

to carry forward1721

off-reckon1721

O. Ni.a1726

to carry over1745

rule1845

to write down1876

to close off188.

qualify1884

accrue1915

net1947

gross1954

strip1980

1539–40 Ordinances Officers of Househ. in F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) p. xxxv The Clerkes-Comptrollers to goe with him to take the said Remaines to be advouched with him, what the expence shall rise to.

1539–40 Ordinances Officers of Househ. in F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) p. xxxv Item..the Booke of Comptrollment..shall be put yearly into the Exchequer, to be advoucht to the Cofferers account.

†3. To appeal to, cite, or allege, as warrant, authority, or testimony. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > attest, bear witness [verb (transitive)] > bring forward as evidence

to draw forthc1175

showa1325

drawc1330

allaya1387

to avouch a thing upon (a person)1393

allegea1398

adduce?a1425

induce1433

recite1509

infera1529

vouch1531

cite1550

avouch1573

relate1604

instance1608

rejourn1624

quote1663

abduce1720

invoke1879

1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 26 Reasuns he usid none against me, but only avouchid and maintainid M. Osburns.

1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 220 In none of them can I reade that whiche he aduoucheth out of him.

a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. vi. §2. 42 Making God himselfe a lyer: as auouching of him, as a witnesse vnto their lye.

1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 216 b For proofe of their opinion they auouch many successions of authorities.

a1718 W. Penn Life in Wks. (1726) I. 42 I shall avouch the Authorities.

†4. To establish upon testimony, to prove. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > prove, demonstrate [verb (transitive)] > by testimony

avouch1588

evince1649

1588 F. Thynne Let. 15 Nov. in Animaduersions (1875) p. xcii Whiche I will sufficiently aduouche, yf Instances be called for at my handes.

1596 E. Spenser View State Ireland 490 The certainty of things in times so far from all knowledge, cannot be justly avouched.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 56 Every hair of our head is as a little quill or horn, hollow and transparent. Which seems to be further avouched also by the burning of hair.

1678 R. Barclay Apol. True Christian Divinity ii. §10. 43 It is by this Spirit, that they avouch themselves to have been converted to God.

II. To give one's own warrant or assurance; to guarantee, confirm.

5. intransitive. To give assurance, guarantee, vouch.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > promise, vow, or pledge [verb (intransitive)] > give assurances

assurec1386

avouch1532

to give (one's) faith1558

1532 King Henry VIII Let. in MS BL Cotton Vitellius B XIII f. 169^v Subscri[bed with your Holiness's] hande, which avouched to confirm the sentence, [and not] to revoke the comission.

1705 D. Defoe Apparition Mrs. Veal in Wks. (1840) V. 341 I can avouch for her reputation.

6. transitive. To vouch to the certainty of, vouch for, guarantee.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > promise or vow [verb (transitive)] > guarantee

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ratify1599

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1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Pref. 5 Voices avouched to haue come from heauen.

1629 Vse of Law 80 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light The seller must bring one to avouch his sale.

1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xxviii. 231 Ambrose avouch'd it for the Law of God.

1755 M. Mackenzie in Philos. Trans. 1754 (Royal Soc.) 48 820 There are bad accounts from Nicomedia, but none well avouched.

1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral viii. 179 The authority of Erasmus avouches the accomplished scholarship of Pace.

1876 E. Mellor Priesthood iv. 175 A miracle avouched by the testimony of those who drank the wine.

III. To declare as a thing for which one can bring vouchers.

a. To declare as a thing one can prove, or upon which one offers one's own express testimony as a personal witness; to affirm, assert. Now strictly of matters of fact upon which one can give first-hand evidence, formerly also of matters of inference or opinion, on which one might speak with ‘authority’.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > assurance, confirmation, or guarantee > assure, confirm, or guarantee [verb (transitive)]

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a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxiii. f. clv More ouer he avouched that y^e See of Lyncoln belonged to the See of yorke.

1562 E. Grindal Remains (1843) (modernized text) 253 I pray you let me understand, whether it may be certainly avouched that the king of Navarre..is killed.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1383/1 Declared vnto him, that there was a gentleman of qualitie..that would auouch it to his face.

1604 T. Wright Succinct Philos. Declar. Clymactericall Yeeres 16 I..haue knowne a man, almost with halfe his lungs rotten with a consumption, and yet boldelie auowch that he was strong.

1624 W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. vii. 111 Loe how plainly Saint Augustine auoucheth Purgatorie.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 62 I constantly avouch that what I have writ is the truth.

1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III xxxviii. 22 He did not know (Alas! how men will lie) That a report..Avouch'd his death.

1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. I. 232 Millions again were ready to avouch the exact contrary.

1845 R. W. Hamilton Inst. Pop. Educ. vi. 129 The true principle is avouched.

1857 C. M. Yonge Cameos xlii, in Monthly Packet Aug. 119 His own deposition, as three Cardinals avouched that he had made it before them.

b. intransitive. To state, declare, assert.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > state or declare [verb (intransitive)]

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1577 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians (new ed.) f. 288 So Paule seemeth to auouch in this place.

1681 J. Collins in J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus To Rdr. sig. A3^v As I have heard him earnestly avouch.

IV. To declare to be one's own, to acknowledge, avow v.¹

8. transitive. To acknowledge (or claim) solemnly as one's own:

a. a person. archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > acknowledgement, avowal, or confession > acknowledge, avow, or confess [verb (transitive)] > acknowledge (a person) as one's own

avowc1220

avouch1579

1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 320/2 God auoucheth vs and taketh vs for his children.

1584 Lett. Patent in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 727 Being not our subiects, nor by vs any way to be auouched, maintained, or defended.

1611 Bible (King James) Deut. xxvi. 17–18 Thou hast auouched the Lord this day to be thy God..And the Lord hath auouched thee this day to be his peculiar people.

1861 R. C. Trench Comm. Epist. 7 Churches Asia 183 He was one of God's hidden ones, but now he is openly avouched.

†b. a thing. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > acknowledgement, avowal, or confession > acknowledge, avow, or confess [verb (transitive)] > acknowledge (a thing) as one's own

avouch1597

owna1620

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke Ded. sig. A2 So wil I not auouch for mine that which by your censure shalbe condemned.

1606 G. Carleton Tithes Examined v. f.26 Tithes are euer holy to God..both dedicated to him by man, and aduouched by himselfe.

9. To acknowledge or take the responsibility of an action:

a. To acknowledge, sanction, confirm the act of a subordinate agent. archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > acknowledgement, avowal, or confession > acknowledge, avow, or confess [verb (transitive)] > responsibility

avoucha1556

the mind > language > statement > acknowledgement or recognition > acknowledge or recognize [verb (transitive)] > the act of a subordinate agent

avoucha1556

a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iii. ii. sig. D.iij^v Adde what so euer thou canst..And I will auouche it what so euer it bee.

1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1549/2 He..might speake things y^t his maister would not auouch.

1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) iii. lxxix. 83 He for whom thou dost this villanie..will not auouch thy fact.

1647 J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva Apol. sig. *B^v That They should..own and avouch them as having been done in Their name, and by their authority.

1834 H. Taylor Philip van Artevelde ii. v.ii. 214 Dukes and regal potentates, whose power May currently avouch her doubtful deeds.

b. To acknowledge (any act) as one's own; to admit, confess, own to. archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > acknowledgement, avowal, or confession > acknowledge, avow, or confess [verb (transitive)]

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to take with ——a1653

upgivea1776

1606 L. Bryskett Disc. Ciuill Life 76 The offences done to men may be auouched before Princes and magistrates in iudgement, as no wrongs, but lawfull acts.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. V. ix. vi. 77 Suppose a poor Lay Catholick..to purchase one of these Rhemish Testaments, he durst not avouch the reading thereof.

1862 R. C. Trench Eng. Past & Pres. (ed. 5) iii. 119 Milton in his prose works frequently avouches the peculiar affection to the Italian literature and language which he bore.

10. To acknowledge (a charge), confess, avow.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > acknowledgement, avowal, or confession > acknowledge, avow, or confess [verb (transitive)] > a charge or liability

avouch1649

1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης ix. 82 Under that excuse avouches himself op'nly the generall Patron of most notorious Delinquents.

1825 W. Scott Betrothed iii, in Tales Crusaders I. 41 The first time that I have heard one with a beard on his lip avouch himself a coward.

1883 A. Forbes in 19th Cent. Oct. 721 Men..who avouch that they are..plotting for the disruption of the Union.

V. Combining IV with II.

11. To acknowledge and support or justify; to make good, establish, prove (with).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > prove, demonstrate [verb (transitive)]

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to make out1653

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to bring off1674

to make (something) to through1675

render1678

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establisha1704

to bring out1727

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validate1775

a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. L2 And will auouche his saying with the sworde.

1700 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 604 All which several charges hee is readie to avouch and prove.

1860 C. M. Yonge Cameos lix, in Monthly Packet Aug. 143 Richard..offered to avouch his innocence with his sword.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	avouch
释义	† avouchn. Etymology: < avouch v. archaic. Guarantee, assurance. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun] > pledge or assurance wordOE costOE earnest1221 fayc1300 certainty1303 wager1306 plighta1325 pledge1371 assurancec1386 undertaking?a1400 faithc1405 surementc1410 to make affiancec1425 earnest pennya1438 warrant1460 trow1515 fidelity1531 stipulation1552 warranty1555 pawn1573 arrha1574 avouchment1574 assumption1590 word of honour1598 avouch1603 assecurance1616 preassurance1635 tower-stamp1642 parole of honour1648 spondence1657 honour1659 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 55 I might not this beleeue, without the sensible and true auouch of my owne eyes. 1860 J. P. Kennedy Rob of Bowl xiii. 139 What he recounts..you have his own avouch for. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2021). avouchv. Brit. /əˈvaʊtʃ/, U.S. /əˈvaʊtʃ/ Forms: Middle English–1500s auouche, avouche, Middle English–1600s auouch, auowch, 1500s auouche, 1500s–1600s advouch, 1600s auoch, Middle English– avouch. Etymology: < Old French avochier, < Latin advocāre . In living use advocāre , by regular phonetic change, became in Old French avoer , avouer ; but as Latin continued in legal use, and the technical terms became to some extent popularized, advocāre , in its technical senses of ‘call upon as defender, guarantor,’ etc., was subsequently made French, as avochier , avocier , avoker , which thus became to a certain extent a more technical synonym of avoer ; so in English with avouch , avow . Compare vouch v. I. To appeal or refer for confirmation to some warrant or authority. †1. transitive. to avouch a thing upon (a person): to call or cite (a person) as warrant or authority for it; to prove, declare, or state it on his or her authority. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > attest, bear witness [verb (transitive)] > bring forward as evidence to draw forthc1175 showa1325 drawc1330 allaya1387 to avouch a thing upon (a person)1393 allegea1398 adduce?a1425 induce1433 recite1509 infera1529 vouch1531 cite1550 avouch1573 relate1604 instance1608 rejourn1624 quote1663 abduce1720 invoke1879 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 295 And that I durst right wel avouche Upon her selfe, as for witnesse. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ciiii. f. xli I am in dought because of sayinge of Ranulphe Monke of Chestre, whiche auowchyth it vpon Wyllyam, wryter of Historyes of kynges. †2. To certify (an account) by reference to, and comparison with, vouchers. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (transitive)] > enter in an account > other book-keeping procedures control1422 avouch1539 allocate1551 respond1588 score1592 carry1652 post1707 to carry forward1721 off-reckon1721 O. Ni.a1726 to carry over1745 rule1845 to write down1876 to close off188. qualify1884 accrue1915 net1947 gross1954 strip1980 1539–40 Ordinances Officers of Househ. in F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) p. xxxv The Clerkes-Comptrollers to goe with him to take the said Remaines to be advouched with him, what the expence shall rise to. 1539–40 Ordinances Officers of Househ. in F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) p. xxxv Item..the Booke of Comptrollment..shall be put yearly into the Exchequer, to be advoucht to the Cofferers account. †3. To appeal to, cite, or allege, as warrant, authority, or testimony. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > attest, bear witness [verb (transitive)] > bring forward as evidence to draw forthc1175 showa1325 drawc1330 allaya1387 to avouch a thing upon (a person)1393 allegea1398 adduce?a1425 induce1433 recite1509 infera1529 vouch1531 cite1550 avouch1573 relate1604 instance1608 rejourn1624 quote1663 abduce1720 invoke1879 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 26 Reasuns he usid none against me, but only avouchid and maintainid M. Osburns. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 220 In none of them can I reade that whiche he aduoucheth out of him. a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. vi. §2. 42 Making God himselfe a lyer: as auouching of him, as a witnesse vnto their lye. 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 216 b For proofe of their opinion they auouch many successions of authorities. a1718 W. Penn Life in Wks. (1726) I. 42 I shall avouch the Authorities. †4. To establish upon testimony, to prove. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > prove, demonstrate [verb (transitive)] > by testimony avouch1588 evince1649 1588 F. Thynne Let. 15 Nov. in Animaduersions (1875) p. xcii Whiche I will sufficiently aduouche, yf Instances be called for at my handes. 1596 E. Spenser View State Ireland 490 The certainty of things in times so far from all knowledge, cannot be justly avouched. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 56 Every hair of our head is as a little quill or horn, hollow and transparent. Which seems to be further avouched also by the burning of hair. 1678 R. Barclay Apol. True Christian Divinity ii. §10. 43 It is by this Spirit, that they avouch themselves to have been converted to God. II. To give one's own warrant or assurance; to guarantee, confirm. 5. intransitive. To give assurance, guarantee, vouch. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > promise, vow, or pledge [verb (intransitive)] > give assurances assurec1386 avouch1532 to give (one's) faith1558 1532 King Henry VIII Let. in MS BL Cotton Vitellius B XIII f. 169^v Subscri[bed with your Holiness's] hande, which avouched to confirm the sentence, [and not] to revoke the comission. 1705 D. Defoe Apparition Mrs. Veal in Wks. (1840) V. 341 I can avouch for her reputation. 6. transitive. To vouch to the certainty of, vouch for, guarantee. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > promise or vow [verb (transitive)] > guarantee fast?a1160 pledge?a1439 assure1447 ensure1460 avouch1548 ratify1599 seal1628 underwrite1838 warrant1849 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Pref. 5 Voices avouched to haue come from heauen. 1629 Vse of Law 80 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light The seller must bring one to avouch his sale. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xxviii. 231 Ambrose avouch'd it for the Law of God. 1755 M. Mackenzie in Philos. Trans. 1754 (Royal Soc.) 48 820 There are bad accounts from Nicomedia, but none well avouched. 1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral viii. 179 The authority of Erasmus avouches the accomplished scholarship of Pace. 1876 E. Mellor Priesthood iv. 175 A miracle avouched by the testimony of those who drank the wine. III. To declare as a thing for which one can bring vouchers. 7. a. To declare as a thing one can prove, or upon which one offers one's own express testimony as a personal witness; to affirm, assert. Now strictly of matters of fact upon which one can give first-hand evidence, formerly also of matters of inference or opinion, on which one might speak with ‘authority’. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > assurance, confirmation, or guarantee > assure, confirm, or guarantee [verb (transitive)] certify1330 highta1375 testify1393 fortifyc1449 avoucha1513 aver1548 vouch1591 a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxiii. f. clv More ouer he avouched that y^e See of Lyncoln belonged to the See of yorke. 1562 E. Grindal Remains (1843) (modernized text) 253 I pray you let me understand, whether it may be certainly avouched that the king of Navarre..is killed. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1383/1 Declared vnto him, that there was a gentleman of qualitie..that would auouch it to his face. 1604 T. Wright Succinct Philos. Declar. Clymactericall Yeeres 16 I..haue knowne a man, almost with halfe his lungs rotten with a consumption, and yet boldelie auowch that he was strong. 1624 W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. vii. 111 Loe how plainly Saint Augustine auoucheth Purgatorie. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 62 I constantly avouch that what I have writ is the truth. 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III xxxviii. 22 He did not know (Alas! how men will lie) That a report..Avouch'd his death. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. I. 232 Millions again were ready to avouch the exact contrary. 1845 R. W. Hamilton Inst. Pop. Educ. vi. 129 The true principle is avouched. 1857 C. M. Yonge Cameos xlii, in Monthly Packet Aug. 119 His own deposition, as three Cardinals avouched that he had made it before them. b. intransitive. To state, declare, assert. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > state or declare [verb (intransitive)] pronouncec1390 avouch1577 say1909 1577 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians (new ed.) f. 288 So Paule seemeth to auouch in this place. 1681 J. Collins in J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus To Rdr. sig. A3^v As I have heard him earnestly avouch. IV. To declare to be one's own, to acknowledge, avow v.¹ 8. transitive. To acknowledge (or claim) solemnly as one's own: a. a person. archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > acknowledgement, avowal, or confession > acknowledge, avow, or confess [verb (transitive)] > acknowledge (a person) as one's own avowc1220 avouch1579 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 320/2 God auoucheth vs and taketh vs for his children. 1584 Lett. Patent in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 727 Being not our subiects, nor by vs any way to be auouched, maintained, or defended. 1611 Bible (King James) Deut. xxvi. 17–18 Thou hast auouched the Lord this day to be thy God..And the Lord hath auouched thee this day to be his peculiar people. 1861 R. C. Trench Comm. Epist. 7 Churches Asia 183 He was one of God's hidden ones, but now he is openly avouched. †b. a thing. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > acknowledgement, avowal, or confession > acknowledge, avow, or confess [verb (transitive)] > acknowledge (a thing) as one's own avouch1597 owna1620 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke Ded. sig. A2 So wil I not auouch for mine that which by your censure shalbe condemned. 1606 G. Carleton Tithes Examined v. f.26 Tithes are euer holy to God..both dedicated to him by man, and aduouched by himselfe. 9. To acknowledge or take the responsibility of an action: a. To acknowledge, sanction, confirm the act of a subordinate agent. archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > acknowledgement, avowal, or confession > acknowledge, avow, or confess [verb (transitive)] > responsibility avoucha1556 the mind > language > statement > acknowledgement or recognition > acknowledge or recognize [verb (transitive)] > the act of a subordinate agent avoucha1556 a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iii. ii. sig. D.iij^v Adde what so euer thou canst..And I will auouche it what so euer it bee. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1549/2 He..might speake things y^t his maister would not auouch. 1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) iii. lxxix. 83 He for whom thou dost this villanie..will not auouch thy fact. 1647 J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva Apol. sig. B^v That They should..own and avouch them as having been done in Their name, and by their authority. 1834 H. Taylor Philip van Artevelde* ii. v.ii. 214 Dukes and regal potentates, whose power May currently avouch her doubtful deeds. b. To acknowledge (any act) as one's own; to admit, confess, own to. archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > acknowledgement, avowal, or confession > acknowledge, avow, or confess [verb (transitive)] kenc975 kithec1000 acknowOE anyetec1175 knowledgec1225 beknowc1325 avow1330 granta1400 acknowledge1481 recognize1509 confess1526 profess1526 testify1526 reacknowledge1550 avouch1606 to take with ——a1653 upgivea1776 1606 L. Bryskett Disc. Ciuill Life 76 The offences done to men may be auouched before Princes and magistrates in iudgement, as no wrongs, but lawfull acts. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. V. ix. vi. 77 Suppose a poor Lay Catholick..to purchase one of these Rhemish Testaments, he durst not avouch the reading thereof. 1862 R. C. Trench Eng. Past & Pres. (ed. 5) iii. 119 Milton in his prose works frequently avouches the peculiar affection to the Italian literature and language which he bore. 10. To acknowledge (a charge), confess, avow. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > acknowledgement, avowal, or confession > acknowledge, avow, or confess [verb (transitive)] > a charge or liability avouch1649 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης ix. 82 Under that excuse avouches himself op'nly the generall Patron of most notorious Delinquents. 1825 W. Scott Betrothed iii, in Tales Crusaders I. 41 The first time that I have heard one with a beard on his lip avouch himself a coward. 1883 A. Forbes in 19th Cent. Oct. 721 Men..who avouch that they are..plotting for the disruption of the Union. V. Combining IV with II. 11. To acknowledge and support or justify; to make good, establish, prove (with). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > prove, demonstrate [verb (transitive)] i-sothea925 soothec950 fanda1000 kitheOE betell1048 showc1175 prove?c1225 treousec1275 stablisha1325 approve1340 verifyc1386 justifya1393 tryc1412 answer?a1425 appreve?c1450 to make gooda1470 convictc1475 averifyc1503 arguea1513 find1512 pree1515 comprobate1531 demonstrate1538 conclude1549 convince1555 argument1558 evict1571 avoucha1593 evidencea1601 remonstrate1601 clear1605 attaint1609 monstrate1609 evince1610 evince1611 improve1613 remonstrance1621 to make out1653 ascertain1670 to bring off1674 to make (something) to through1675 render1678 substantiatea1691 establisha1704 to bring out1727 realize1763 validate1775 a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. L2 And will auouche his saying with the sworde. 1700 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 604 All which several charges hee is readie to avouch and prove. 1860 C. M. Yonge Cameos lix, in Monthly Packet Aug. 143 Richard..offered to avouch his innocence with his sword. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1603v.1393
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