Word Meanings - VOUCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title. He vouches the tenant in tail, who vouches over the common vouchee. Blackstone. Syn. -- To obtest; declare; affirm; attest; warrant; confirm; asseverate; aver; protest;

Additional info about word: VOUCH

To call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title. He vouches the tenant in tail, who vouches over the common vouchee. Blackstone. Syn. -- To obtest; declare; affirm; attest; warrant; confirm; asseverate; aver; protest; assure. (more info) 1. To call; to summon. vouch to their aid the authority of the writers. Sir T. Elyot. 2. To call upon to witness; to obtest. Vouch the silent stars and conscious moon. Dryden. 3. To warrant; to maintain by affirmations; to attest; to affirm; to avouch. They made him ashamed to vouch the truth of the relation, and afterwards to credit it. Atterbury. 4. To back; to support; to confirm; to establish. Me damp horror chilled At such bold words vouched with a deed so bold. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VOUCH)

• Attest
• Vouch
• aver
• assert
• certify
• witness
• vouch for
• affirm
• testify
• evidence
• support
• confirm
• suggest
• prove
• involve
• demonstrate
• establish
• imply
• bespeak
• Certify
• Acknowledge
• attest
• vouch
• avow
• avouch
• protest
• declare
• inform
• assure
• Engage
• Promise
• undertake
• employ
• occupy
• hire
• gain
• attract
• enlist
• stipulate
• pledge
• agree
• buy
• adopt

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of VOUCH)

• Redeem
• Drop
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• discontinue
• oppose
• discourage
• weaken
• exhaust
• thwart
• discountenance
• disfavor
• subvert
• suppress

Related words: (words related to VOUCH)

• PROVENTRIULUS
  The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
• PROVERBIAL
  1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• ASSURER
  1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• AVOUCHMENT
  The act of avouching; positive declaration. Milton.
• INFORMOUS
  Of irregular form; shapeless. Sir T. Browne.
• AFFIRMATIVELY
  In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
• ASSERT
  self, claim, maintain; ad + serere to join or bind together. See 1. To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• PROVENCAL
  Of or pertaining to Provence or its inhabitants.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• ASSERTORY
  Affirming; maintaining. Arguments . . . assertory, not probatory. Jer. Taylor. An assertory, not a promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton.
• SUGGESTION
  Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party. (more info) 1. The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea. 2. That which is suggested;
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• INEVIDENCE
  Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
• COMPROMISE
  promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• WELL-INFORMED
  Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• UNPROMISE
  To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman.
• REENLISTMENT
  A renewed enlistment.
• EXSTIPULATE
  Having no stipules. Martyn.