Oyez

Quick meaning: Oyez is an interjection meaning Hear ye. Attend. (Called by public criers or in court usually three times to secure silence and/or attentiveness).

Meaning

Hear ye. Attend. (Called by public criers or in court usually three times to secure silence and/or attentiveness).

More Meanings

1. A cry of "oyez".
2. (transitive, rare) To proclaim with a cry of "oyez".

Example Sentences

“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.

Word Forms

• oyes
• oyezes

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