英和和英

動詞

vocate (三人称単数 現在形 vocates, 現在分詞 vocating, 過去形および過去分詞形 vocated)

1. (obsolete) To appoint to a religious office.
   • 1818, Thomas Harris (Jr.) & ‎John McHenry, Maryland Reports:

     That if Mr. Henop, your present minister, should approve of the aforesaid vocation, your congregation be at perfect liberty to vocate any minister who is a member of the synod; as likewise the minister, being thus vocated, is authorised to accept the vocation.

   • 1840, Report of the Poor Law Commissioners to the Most Noble the Marquis of Normanby:

     Yet in the remote parishes it would be mearly impossible to find medical men of superior talent to vocate for want of adequate practice.

   • 1899, The Pacific Reporter - Volume 58, page 974:

     The congregation has the right and duty to vocate a pastor, who must be of the Evangelical Lutheran confession, to honor him, to submit to his official acts as long as they are based on the Word of God.

Latin

動詞

vocāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of vocō

Participle

vocāte

1. vocative masculine singular of vocātus