AVOUCH

To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority. [Obs.] They avouch many successions of authorities. Coke.

To maintain a just or true; to vouch for. We might be disposed to question its authencity, it if were not avouched by the full evidence. Milman.

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. Spenser.

To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction. Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God. Deut. xxvi. 17.

Evidence; declaration. [Obs.] The sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes. Shak.