advoke

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Ad·voke′ (…), transitive verb

Origin: L. advocare. See Advocate.

To summon; to call. obsolete

Queen Katharine had privately prevailed with the pope to advoke the cause to Rome.— Thomas Fuller

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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