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and v. An obsolete form of advice, advise. If not from virtue, from its gravest ways, The soul with pleasing avocation strays. Parnell, To an Old Beauty. Hence-4. That which calls one away from one's proper busine ; a subordinate or occasional occupation; a diversion or distraction. Heaven is his vocation, and therefore he counts earthly Fuller , Holy State, iv. 9. IMG:content-1455.png:[blocks in formation] avised (a-vist'), a. [Sc., prop. * vised, Visits, busine , cards, and I know not how many other avocations do succeed one another so thick, that in the day there is no time left for the distracted person to converse with his own thoughts. See cut under avicula . sides Avicula, the type, among them Meleagrina, which contains the famous pearl-mu el, M. mar gar it if era, of the Indian ocean and Persian gulf and the Gulf of Mexico. aviculoid (a-vik'ū-loid), a. [