avouch

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

AVOUCH', verb transitive [Latin voco, advoco. See Voice.] 1. To affirm; to declare or assert with positiveness. 2. To produce or call in; to affirm in favor of, maintain or support. Such antiquities could be avouched for the Irish. 3. To maintain, vindicate or justify. AVOUCH', noun Evidence; testimony; declaration. [Little used.]
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