advoke

t. [Lat. advoco = to call or summon to one: ad to; voco to call.] To call or summon to; to transfer a cause (to one's self) for trial. "His holine promising not to revoke the Baid commi ion should not, at the point of sentence, have advoked the cause, retaining it at Rome."-Bonner. (Froude's "Hist. Eng .," ch. vii.) *ăd'-vō-kěte. [ADVOCATE.]