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particular state, business, or profession. What can be urged for them who not having the vocation of poverty to scribble, out of mere wantonness make themselves ridiculous Dryden.

pleading; plea; advocacy. [Archaic] The holy Jesus . . . sits in heaven in a perpetual advocation for us. Jer. Taylor.

A calling away; a diversion. [Obs. or Archaic] Impulses to duty, and powerful avocations from sin. South.

An assembly or meeting. In the first day there shall be a holy convocation. Ex. xii. 16.

Of or pertaining to a convocation.

An advocate or defender of convocation.

A calling off or away. [R.] Hallywell.

eptible of a double signification, with a purpose to mislead. There being no room for equivocations, there is no need of distinctions. Locke.

The act of calling out or forth. Sir. T. Browne. The evocation of that better spirit. M. Arnold.

erior being; earnest and solemn entreaty; esp., prayer offered to a divine being. Sweet invocation of a child; most pretty and pathetical! Shak. The whole poem is a prayer to Fortune, and the invocation is divided between the two deities. Addison.

That which provokes, or excites anger; the cause of resentment; as, to give provocation. Paley.

ling back, or the state of being recalled; recall. One that saw the people bent for the revocation of Calvin, gave him notice of their affection. Hooker.

A calling aside. [Obs.]

Agreement of name and meaning. [Obs.] Whiston.

At the same time; simultaneously. [Obs.] Abreast therewith began a convocation. Fuller.

rding to its usual acceptation. My words, in common acceptation, Could never give this provocation. Gay.

The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like. Bouvier.

Provocation; irritation. [Colloq.] Dickens.

susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term.

Ambiguity of speech; equivocation. [R.]