Part 467

Want makes us know the price of what we avile. B. Jonson.

A*vis" (&?;), n. [F. avis. See Advice.] Advice; opinion; deliberation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A*vise" (&?;), v. t. [F. aviser. See Advise, v. t.] 1. To look at; to view; to think of. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2. To advise; to counsel. [Obs.] Shak.

To avise one's self, to consider with one's self, to reflect, to deliberate. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Now therefore, if thou wilt enriched be, Avise thee well, and change thy willful mood. Spenser.

A*vise", v. i. To consider; to reflect. [Obs.]

A*vise"ful (&?;), a. Watchful; circumspect. [Obs.]

With sharp, aviseful eye. Spenser.

A*vise"ly, adv. Advisedly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A*vise"ment (&?;), n. Advisement; observation; deliberation. [Obs.]

A*vi"sion (&?;), n. Vision. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A*vi"so (&?;), n. [Sp.] 1. Information; advice.

2. An advice boat, or dispatch boat.

||Av`o*ca"do (&?;), n. [Corrupted from the Mexican ahuacatl: cf. Sp. aguacate, F. aguacaté, avocat, G. avogadobaum.] The pulpy fruit of Persea gratissima, a tree of tropical America. It is about the size and shape of a large pear; -- called also avocado pear, alligator pear, midshipman's butter.

||Av`o*cat (&?;), n. [F.] An advocate.

Av"o*cate (&?;), v. t. [L. avocatus, p. p. of avocare; a, ab + vocare to call. Cf. Avoke, and see Vocal, a.] To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal. [Obs. or Archaic]

One who avocateth his mind from other occupations. Barrow.

He, at last, . . . avocated the cause to Rome. Robertson.

Av`o*ca"tion (&?;), n. [L. avocatio.] 1. A calling away; a diversion. [Obs. or Archaic]

Impulses to duty, and powerful avocations from sin. South.

2. That which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation.

Heaven is his vocation, and therefore he counts earthly employments avocations. Fuller.

By the secular cares and avocations which accompany marriage the clergy have been furnished with skill in common life. Atterbury.

In this sense the word is applied to the smaller affairs of life, or occasional calls which summon a person to leave his ordinary or principal business. Avocation (in the singular) for vocation is usually avoided by good writers.

3. pl. Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one's time; usual employment; vocation.

There are professions, among the men, no more favorable to these studies than the common avocations of women. Richardson.

In a few hours, above thirty thousand men left his standard, and returned to their ordinary avocations. Macaulay.