"vocate" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "vocating",
      "tags": [
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        "present"
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    {
      "form": "vocated",
      "tags": [
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        "past"
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      "form": "vocated",
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        "past"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1818, Thomas Harris (Jr.), John McHenry, Maryland Reports:",
          "text": "That if Mr. Henop, your present minister, should approve of the aforesaid vocation, your congregation be at perfect liberty to vocate any minister who is a member of the synod; as likewise the minister, being thus vocated, is authorised to accept the vocation.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1840, Report of the Poor Law Commissioners to the Most Noble the Marquis of Normanby:",
          "text": "Yet in the remote parishes it would be mearly impossible to find medical men of superior talent to vocate for want of adequate practice.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1899, The Pacific Reporter - Volume 58, page 974:",
          "text": "The congregation has the right and duty to vocate a pastor, who must be of the Evangelical Lutheran confession, to honor him, to submit to his official acts as long as they are based on the Word of God.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To appoint to a religious office."
      ],
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          "religious",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To appoint to a religious office."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "vocate"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "vocates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "vocating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vocated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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      "form": "vocated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1818, Thomas Harris (Jr.), John McHenry, Maryland Reports:",
          "text": "That if Mr. Henop, your present minister, should approve of the aforesaid vocation, your congregation be at perfect liberty to vocate any minister who is a member of the synod; as likewise the minister, being thus vocated, is authorised to accept the vocation.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1840, Report of the Poor Law Commissioners to the Most Noble the Marquis of Normanby:",
          "text": "Yet in the remote parishes it would be mearly impossible to find medical men of superior talent to vocate for want of adequate practice.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1899, The Pacific Reporter - Volume 58, page 974:",
          "text": "The congregation has the right and duty to vocate a pastor, who must be of the Evangelical Lutheran confession, to honor him, to submit to his official acts as long as they are based on the Word of God.",
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        "To appoint to a religious office."
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        "(obsolete) To appoint to a religious office."
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  "word": "vocate"
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