irrevocable, vociferous, provoke, revoke, evoke, convoke; (2) vocable, vocabulary, avocation, equivocal, invoke, avouch, vouchsafe. Sentences:

" <Say, utter, pronounce, announce, state, declare, affirm, aver, asseverate, allege, assert, avouch, avow, maintain, claim, depose, predicate, swear, suggest, insinuate, testify>.

Mrs. Bargrave is the person to whom Mrs. Veal appeared after her death; she is my intimate friend, and I can avouch for her reputation for these fifteen or sixteen years, on my own knowledge; and I can confirm the good character she had from her youth to the time of my acquaintance.

Rarely, but on some peculiarly important occasions, the Zveltau avouch their sincerity by an appeal to their own symbols; and it is affirmed that an oath attested by the Circle and the Star has never, in the lapse of ages, been broken or evaded.

"This," he said, "was given me to avouch the following message:Our Chiefs are informed that the Order is threatened with a novel danger.

" "If," I rejoined at last, "you think it a kindness to her, and are sure she will so think it; if you wish it, and will avouch her contentment with a place in the household of one who does not desire her, I will comply with this as with any wish of yours.

I dare avouch, what lately I have saide, The love that troubles you is for no maide.

But take this with thee: if I was not form'd To prize a love like thinea mind like thine Nor dote even on thy beautyas I've doted On lesser charms, for no cause save that such Devotion was a duty, and I hated All that look'd like a chain for me or others (This even rebellion must avouch); yet hear These words, perhaps among my lastthat none E'er valued more thy virtues, though he knew not To profit by them.

Well, I avouch, she will, before I go: Far be it John should prove Lord Bruce's foe.

depose, depone, aver, avow, avouch, asseverate, swear; make oath, take one's oath; make an affidavit, swear an affidavit, put in an affidavit; take one's Bible oath, kiss the book, vow, vitam impendere vero

" "Messire," said Sir Tristram, "of that I have assured myself very strongly ere I entered into this contest, wherefore I may now freely avouch upon mine own knightly word that he is innocent.

Fear makes our imagination conceive what it list, invites the devil to come to us, as Agrippa and Cardan avouch, and tyranniseth over our phantasy more than all other affections, especially in the dark.

No denial of the fact, Juana; those black bruises avouch it without a tongue.

Can he avouch the fidelity of his correspondent?" "Surely, yes," answered Rivers.

Our blessed Saviour chose the garden sometime for his oratory, and, dying, for the place of his sepulture; and we also do avouch, for many weighty causes, that there are none more fit to bury our dead in than in our gardens and groves where our beds may he decked with verdant and fragrant flowers.

There she stands to avouch itnay, blush not, kinswoman, there is no shame in loving a courtly knight better than a country thane,and do not laugh neither, Rowena, for grave-clothes and a thin visage are, God knows, no matter of merriment.

I well may give, And in the stocks avouch it.

In the present instance how do we know that avouch was sounded as it is now?

Who that has any respect for the human intellect, or whose powers of mind deserve any in return, will avouch this jumble to be "the order of the understanding?"

I dare Avouch the fact.

I was never present at this time, however, and only avouch what I relate by hearsay and probable conjecture; for between four and six it would have been a grave misdemeanour in me if I so much as approached the parlour door.

It had not been wrought had I been present; but here are those who can avouch it.

Hence it followeth, that we are to take him, so as to avouch him and his cause and interest on all hazards, stand to his truth, and not be ashamed of him in a day of trial.

Is he our Lord and master, and should we not own and avouch him?

"That I can avouch, for I overheard her declare as much to Sir Jocelyn.