Advoke

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. An archaic verb meaning to call someone away or summon them back from a place or undertaking
2. Old usage describing the act of calling a person off or recalling them from some activity
3. Obsolete term for summoning someone back or drawing them away from where they were

Etymology: "Advoke" is an obsolete English verb, now found mainly in older texts, and its story is really the story of three English words that all split from one Latin ancestor. Its Latin source, "advocare," was built from "ad" ("to") and "vocare" ("to call"), so the original sense was something like calling someone to come to your side. From that core idea came "advocate," the person who speaks on another's behalf, while "advoke" and its relatives took the sense of summoning or calling forth. "Advoke" is a doublet of "avouch," "avow," and "advocate," meaning that all four descend from the same Latin verb but reached English by different routes and took on different shades of meaning. The shared root explains why they look so alike: each keeps a trace of the original call, whether it is a legal summons, a formal declaration, or a formal recommendation. It was borrowed directly from Latin, so it did not pass through French first.