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oyez
[ oh-yes, oh-yez ]
interjection
- hear! attend! (a cry uttered usually twice by a court officer to command silence and attention, as before court is in session, and formerly by public criers).
noun
- a cry of “oyez.”
oyez
/ -ˈjɛz; əʊˈjɛs /
interjection
- a cry, usually uttered three times, by a public crier or court official for silence and attention before making a proclamation
noun
- such a cry
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Origin of oyez1
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Example Sentences
I would not have an author make it his business to render me attentive: or that he should cry out fifty times Oyez!
All it does is give evidence that your friend and partner will be on the job when the bailiff yells oyez, oyez, oyez.
I was very much surprised to hear a court of justice in Pennsylvania opened with the old French word oyez!
On October 22, a proclamation is made in the Exchequer as follows: 'Oyez!
This is a corruption of the old Norman-French word oyez, “hear ye.”
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