Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To call off or away.
- To remove authoritatively from an inferior to a superior court.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Obs. or Archaic To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
call off oraway ; towithdraw ; totransfer to another tribunal.
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Examples
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She responded that, being an "avocate," she wasn't too worried on her own behalf, but might be concerned that it could turn out to be one of her male colleagues.
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She responded that, being an "avocate," she wasn't too worried on her own behalf, but might be concerned that it could turn out to be one of her male colleagues.
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Since in French a woman would indeed be une premiere avocate, if consistency with French was the goal, one would use premiere for female lawyers and premier for males and premier if there was amix.
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They seem to dislike popular culture, blacks, anybody who doesn't want to return to a 19th century agrarian lifestyle and appear to avocate that the US turn in on itself and forget about the world I actually have had that fantasy too.
that old familiar feeling Dymphna 2008
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They seem to dislike popular culture, blacks, anybody who doesn't want to return to a 19th century agrarian lifestyle and appear to avocate that the US turn in on itself and forget about the world I actually have had that fantasy too.
Archive 2008-05-01 Dymphna 2008
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Seems all you need to do in most cases is get people to check talk origins on every claim they hear from an ID avocate.
ID Moving On in Fighting the Culture War - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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They include former the lord avocate, Elish Angiolini, and QC Paul McBride, who have expressed concern about the Supreme Court's role.
BBC News - Home 2011
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They include former the lord avocate, Elish Angiolini, and QC Paul McBride, who have expressed concern about the Supreme Court's role.
BBC News - Home 2011
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The Republicans got us into two extremely expensive wars, they allowed the banks to be de-regulated and caused a melt-down of the economy which will take us years to recover from, they want to cut programs that millions of Americans depend on, and avocate an absolutely dispicable increase in taxes for poor people.
News - latimes.com 2011
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La réhabilitation pour Salieri Au TCE, Cecilia Bartoli se fait l'éblouissante avocate d'un musicien dont la postérité retiendra avant tout les soupçons d'empoisonnement sur la personne de Mozart: Antonio Salieri.
Opera Today gary@operatoday.com 2010
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