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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