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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AVOUCH', v.t. [L. voco, advoco. See Voice.]
1. To affirm; to declare or assert with positiveness.
2. To produce or call in; to affirm in favor of, maintain or support.
Such antiquities could be avouched for the Irish.
3. To maintain, vindicate or justify.
AVOUCH', n. Evidence; testimony; declaration. [Little used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about [syn: avow, avouch] [ant: disavow]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Etymology: Middle English, to cite as authority, from Middle French avochier to summon, from Latin advocare — more at advocate Date: 15th century 1. to declare as a matter of fact or as a thing that can be proved ; affirm 2. to vouch for ; corroborate 3. a. to acknowledge (as an act) as one's own b. confess, avow

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. & intr. archaic or rhet. guarantee, affirm, confess. Derivatives: avouchment n. Etymology: ME f. OF avochier f. L advocare (as AD-, vocare call)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Avouch A*vouch", n. Evidence; declaration. [Obs.] The sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes. --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Avouch A*vouch", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Avouched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Avouching.] [OF. avochier, LL. advocare to recognize the existence of a thing, to advocate, fr. L. advocare to call to; ad + vocare to call. Cf. Avow to declare, Advocate, and see Vouch, v. t.] 1. To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority. [Obs.] They avouch many successions of authorities. --Coke. 2. To maintain a just or true; to vouch for. We might be disposed to question its authenticity, it if were not avouched by the full evidence. --Milman. 3. 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. 4. To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction. Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God. --Deut. xxvi. 17.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

a-vouch': In English Versions of the Bible only in De 26:17,18, in the sense of "to confess," "avow," "publicly and solemnly declare." The Hebrew form is likewise unique (Hiph. of 'amar).

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Assert, asseverate, declare, protest, allege, say, maintain. See affirm.

Moby Thesaurus

acknowledge, admit, affirm, allege, announce, annunciate, argue, assert, assever, asseverate, assure, attest, aver, avow, bear witness, certify, confess, confirm, contend, corroborate, countersign, declare, depone, depose, disclose, enunciate, express, express the belief, give evidence, guarantee, have, hold, insist, issue a manifesto, lay down, maintain, make a promise, manifesto, own, pledge, plight, predicate, proclaim, profess, promise, pronounce, protest, put, put it, say, set down, speak, speak out, speak up, stand for, stand on, state, submit, swear, testify, troth, underwrite, vouch, vow, warrant, witness