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/ˈəʊˌjeɪ/ · interjection
Hear ye. Attend. (Called by public criers or in court usually three times to secure silence and/or attentiveness)..
“Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! The Banquet is now ready!” called the two Beef Eaters, and in no time at all Palmer Cox’s resourceful Brownies had found a seat for every guest.
I truſte you make no queſtion about thoſe dull pated pennifathers, that in ſuch dudgen ſcorne reiected him, drunck deep of the ſowre cup of repentance for it, when the high flight of his lines in common brute was ooyeſſed.
Use oyez when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Oyez means Hear ye. Attend. (Called by public criers or in court usually three times to secure silence and/or attentiveness)..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
“Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! The Banquet is now ready!” called the two Beef Eaters, and in no time at all Palmer Cox’s resourceful Brownies had found a seat for every guest.
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