Advoked

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Archaic term meaning to summon someone or call them away from a place or matter
2. An obsolete verb for calling a person to come, or drawing something away to another place
3. Formerly used to describe summoning or calling upon someone, now found only in older texts

Etymology: "Advoked" is the past tense and past participle of "advoke," a verb borrowed from Latin "advocare," built from "ad" ("to") and "vocare" ("to call"). The Latin sense is literally "to call toward," which is the root of the whole family: someone called in to help or speak for another is an advocate, and the same Latin verb gave English "advocate," "avouch," and "avow." These are doublets, meaning several English words descended from one Latin source by different routes, so "advoke" sits beside its more familiar relatives as an older, less common branch of the same tree. The surprise is how far the sense of "calling" has travelled. "Avouch" and "avow" both took on the meaning of solemnly declaring or affirming something, while "advocate" moved toward speaking on someone's behalf in court. "Advoke" kept closer to the original act of summoning or calling someone to a place or a matter, so the same Latin gesture of calling out to someone ended up as a legal voice, a vow, and a formal assertion.

Synonyms: summoned, evoked, called

Antonyms: dismissed