What does vocate mean?
Vocate means (obsolete) To appoint to a religious office..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(obsolete) To appoint to a religious office..
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.
Use vocate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Vocate means (obsolete) To appoint to a religious office..
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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.
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