avocat

[Fr.] A French lawyer, corresponding in many respects to an English barrister. "These babbling Avocats up at Paris-all talk and no work."-Carlyle: Heroes & Hero-Worship, Lect. vi. * av-o-cāte, v.t. [Lat. avocatus , pa. par. of avoco to call off or away: a from, and voco to call upon.] To call away from. "From hence it is evident that all secular employment did not-hoc ipso - avocate a clergyman from his nece ary office and duty." Bishop Taylor: Episco pacy A erted, § 49. ( Richardson .) * ǎv'-o-ca-těd, pa. par. [AVOCATE, V.] * av'-o-ca-ting, pr. par. [AVOCATE, V.] "Their divesture of mortality dispenses them from those laborious and avocating duties to distre ed Christians and their secular relations, which are here requisite."- Boyle .