Crossword clues for avouched
avouched
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Avouch \A*vouch"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Avouched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Avouching.] [OF. avochier, LL. advocare to recognize the existence of a thing, to advocate, fr. L. advocare to call to; ad + vocare to call. Cf. Avow to declare, Advocate, and see Vouch, v. t.]
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To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority. [Obs.]
They avouch many successions of authorities.
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To maintain a just or true; to vouch for.
We might be disposed to question its authenticity, it if were not avouched by the full evidence.
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To declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to affirm openly.
If this which he avouches does appear.
--Shak.Such antiquities could have been avouched for the Irish.
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To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.
Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God.
--Deut. xxvi. 17.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: avouch)
Usage examples of "avouched".
He even avouched that he had never been more pleased about a wedding than the day his sister married Sedgwick.
Ofttimes, he avouched that I was as much a part of him as his own heart.
Conrade arose boldly to answer, and in despite, as he expressed himself, of man and brute, king or dog, avouched his innocence of the crime charged.
Dismounting before it, each knight avouched the justice of his cause by a solemn oath on the Evangelists, and prayed that his success might be according to the truth or falsehood of what he then swore.
He, of course, avouched his innocence, and offered his body for battle.
The churchyard at Ashford, and the stone cross, from whence diverged the several roads to London, Canterbury, and Ashford, situated midway between the two latter places, served, so tradition avouched, as nocturnal theatres for the unhallowed deeds of the Wulfrics, who thither prowled by moonlight, it was said, to batten on the freshly-buried dead, or drain the blood of any living wight who might be rash enough to venture among those solitary spots.
Dismounting before it, each knight avouched the justice of his cause by a solemn oath on the Evangelists, and prayed that his success might be according to the truth or falsehood of what he then swore.
He, of course, avouched his innocence, and offered his body for battle.