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ad⋅vo⋅cate
[v. ad-vuh-keyt; n. ad-vuh-kit, -keyt] 
verb, -cat⋅ed, -cat⋅ing, noun | 1. | to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly: He advocated higher salaries for teachers. |
| 2. | a person who speaks or writes in support or defense of a person, cause, etc. (usually fol. by of): an advocate of peace. |
| 3. | a person who pleads for or in behalf of another; intercessor. |
| 4. | a person who pleads the cause of another in a court of law. |
1300–50; < L advocātus legal counselor (orig. ptp. of advocāre to call to one's aid), equiv. to ad- ad- + voc- call (akin to vōx voice ) + -ātus -ate 1 ; r. ME avocat < MF
Related forms:
2. champion, proponent, backer. 4. lawyer, attorney, counselor, counsel; barrister; solicitor.
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| ad·vo·cate (ād'və-kāt') tr.v. ad·vo·cat·ed, ad·vo·cat·ing, ad·vo·cates To speak, plead, or argue in favor of. See Synonyms at support. n. (-kĭt, -kāt')
[From Middle English advocat, lawyer, from Old French advocat, from Latin advocātus, past participle of advocāre, to summon for counsel : ad-, ad- + vocāre, to call; see wekw- in Indo-European roots.] ad'vo·ca'tion n., ad'vo·ca'tive, ad·voc'a·to'ry (ād-vŏk'ə-tôr'ē, -tōr'-, ād'və-kə-) adj., ad'vo·ca'tor n. |
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Advocate
Ad"vo*cate\, n. [OE. avocat, avocet, OF. avocat, fr. L. advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See Advowee, Avowee, Vocal.]1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor. Note: In the English and American Law, advocate is the same as "counsel," "counselor," or "barrister." In the civil and ecclesiastical courts, the term signifies the same as "counsel" at the common law. 2. One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth. 3. Christ, considered as an intercessor. We have an Advocate with the Father. --1 John ii. 1. Faculty of advocates (Scot.), the Scottish bar in Edinburgh. Lord advocate (Scot.), the public prosecutor of crimes, and principal crown lawyer. Judge advocate. See under Judge.Advocate
Ad"vo*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Advocated; p. pr. & vb. n. Advocating.] [See Advocate, n., Advoke, Avow.] To plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly. To advocate the cause of thy client. --Bp. Sanderson (1624). This is the only thing distinct and sensible, that has been advocated. --Burke. Eminent orators were engaged to advocate his cause. --Mitford.Advocate
Ad"vo*cate\, v. i. To act as advocate. [Obs.] --Fuller.Cite This Source
advocate
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Main Entry: 1ad·vo·cate
Pronunciation: 'ad-v&-k&t, -"kAt
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin advocatus adviser to a party in a lawsuit, counselor, from past participle of advocare to summon, employ as counsel, from ad to + vocare to call
1 : a person (as a lawyer) who works and argues in support of another's cause esp. in court
2 : a person or group that defends or maintains a cause or proposal advocate>
Main Entry: 2ad·vo·cate
Pronunciation: 'ad-v&-"kAt
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: -cat·ed; -cat·ing
transitive verb : to argue in favor of intransitive verb : to act as an advocate
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Advocate
(Gr. parakletos), one who pleads another's cause, who helps another by defending or comforting him. It is a name given by Christ three times to the Holy Ghost (John 14:16; 15:26; 16:7, where the Greek word is rendered "Comforter," q.v.). It is applied to Christ in 1 John 2:1, where the same Greek word is rendered "Advocate," the rendering which it should have in all the places where it occurs. Tertullus "the orator" (Acts 24:1) was a Roman advocate whom the Jews employed to accuse Paul before Felix.
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advocate
in law, a person who is professionally qualified to plead the cause of another in a court of law. As a technical term, advocate is used mainly in those legal systems that derived from the Roman law. In Scotland the word refers particularly to a member of the bar of Scotland, the Faculty of Advocates. In France avocats were formerly an organized body of pleaders, while the preparation of cases was done by avoues; today this distinction exists only before the appellate courts. In Germany, until the distinction between counselor and pleader was abolished in 1879, the Advokat was the adviser rather than the pleader. The term has traditionally been applied to pleaders in courts of canon law, and thus in England those who practiced before the courts of civil and canon law were called advocates. In the United States the term advocate has no special significance, being used interchangeably with such terms as attorney, counsel, or lawyer. See also barrister; lawyer; solicitor.
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