different between plead vs advocation
plead
English
Etymology
From Middle English pleden, plaiden, from Old French plaider (“to plead, offer a plea”), from plait, from Medieval Latin placitum (“a decree, sentence, suit, plea, etc.", in Classical Latin, "an opinion, determination, prescription, order; literally, that which is pleasing, pleasure”), neuter of placitus, past participle of place? (“to please”). Cognate with Spanish pleitear (“to litigate, take to court”).
Pronunciation
- Present tense, infinitive
- IPA(key): /?pli?d/
- Rhymes: -i?d
- Past tense
- IPA(key): /?pli?d?d/
- IPA(key): /pl?d/ (both pled and plead)
Verb
plead (third-person singular simple present pleads, present participle pleading, simple past and past participle (North America, England, legal) pleaded or (North America, Scotland) pled or (North America) plead)
- (transitive, intransitive, copulative) To present (an argument or a plea), especially in a legal case.
- O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
- (intransitive) To beg, beseech, or implore.
- (transitive) To offer by way of excuse.
- Not wishing to attend the banquet, I pleaded illness.
- (transitive) To discuss by arguments.
Related terms
- plea
- pleasant
- please
- pleasurable
- pleasure
Translations
Further reading
- plead in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- plead in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- plead at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- padel, padle, paled, pedal
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advocation
English
Etymology
From Latin advoc?ti?. Doublet of advowson.
Noun
advocation (countable and uncountable, plural advocations)
- (archaic) Advocacy; the act of advocating or pleading.
- (Britain, law) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church.
- (Scotland, law) The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court.
See also
- avocation
References
- advocation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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