Meaning of vocate | Babel Free

Definitions

To appoint to a religious office.

obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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

“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.”

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