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Advocatus

An advocatus, or advocate, was generally a medieval term meaning " lawyer". The term was also used in continental Europe as the title of the lay lord charged with the protection and representation in secular matters of an abbey, known more fully as an advocatus ecclesiae.

Usage examples of "advocatus".

The advocatus diaboli was just trying to cast doubt on your founder’s character.

There was small danger of the advocatus diaboli giving immediate credence even to the truth, without first giving it a thorough thrashing and thrusting his fingers into its wounds.

The advocatus diaboli interrupted with periodic snorts and sarcastic queries, and when he was finished, the advocate raked at his story with semantic tooth and nail until Francis himself wondered if he had really seen the old man or had imagined the incident.

The human who had spoken to Jack aboard the Advocatus Diaboli had been part of the plot against his people.

The advocatus diaboli was just trying to cast doubt on your founder's character.

You're not suggesting, are you, Father, that it's an advocatus diaboli?

But whoever holds our thinking itself, "the spirit," in other words, responsible for the falseness of the world - an honorable way out which is chosen by every conscious or unconscious advocatus dei - whoever takes this world, along with space, time, form, movement, to be falsely inferred - anyone like that would at least have ample reason to learn to be suspicious at long last of all thinking.

It would be a pleasure to see the Advocatus Diaboli turn from the table of the prosecution to the table of the defence, and move in solemn form for the damnation of the Naumburg hobgoblin.

The advocatus diaboli was just trying to cast doubt on your founders character.

And I'm it, advocatus diaboli, but I didn't come here simply to speak to you.