Word Meanings - CONVOCATIONIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An advocate or defender of convocation.

Related words: (words related to CONVOCATIONIST)

• ADVOCATE
  advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See 1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or
• CONVOCATIONIST
  An advocate or defender of convocation.
• DEFENDER
  One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator. Provinces . . . left without their ancient and puissant defenders. Motley.
• CONVOCATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a convocation.
• CONVOCATION
  An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs. Note: In England, the provinces of Canterbury and York have each their convocation, but no session for business were allowed from 1717 to 1861.
• ADVOCATESHIP
  Office or duty of an advocate.
• SUBADVOCATE
  An under or subordinate advocate.