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noun

Advocate n.

One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor. Note: In the English and American Law, advocate is the same as "counsel," "counselor," or "barrister." In the civil and ecclesiastical courts, the term signifies the same as "counsel" at the common law.

One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth.

Christ, considered as an intercessor. "We have an Advocate with the Father."

Faculty of advocates (Scot.), the Scottish bar in Edinburgh.

Lord advocate (Scot.), the public prosecutor of crimes, and principal crown lawyer.

Judge advocate. See under Judge.

verb

Advocate v. t. (past & past part. advocated; pres. part. advocating) To plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly. "To advocate the cause of thy client." "This is the only thing distinct and sensible, that has been advocated." "Eminent orators were engaged to advocate his cause."

Advocate v. i. To act as advocate. (Obs.)

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"Advocate" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the High Court of Admiralty, whose duty it is to appear for the lord high-admiral in that court, the court of delegates, or any other wherein his rights are concerned.—Judge-advocate of the navy, a law officer appointed to watch over and direct proceedings connected with courts-martial.—Deputy judge-advocate, an appointment made by the sudden selection of some secretary, or ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

... reports, and there seemed no end to the noise. Sixty guns meant a princess, one hundred and one meant a prince. When the sixty-first was heard, there was great rejoicing, for then they knew that the duchess had borne a son; when, however, another shot followed the one hundred and first, a clever advocate suggested that perhaps there were two princesses. When one hundred and sixty-one guns had been fired, they said it might be a boy and a girl; when the one hundred and eightieth came, the schoolmaster, whose ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... "You make an eloquent advocate; but there's little need for pity in her case; her tastes are natural to her class. I was to blame for not realising it before; but she'll be well set up for the future," he said, and forthwith dismissed the subject from his mind. "But Jasper, what ...

— Adrien Leroy • Charles Garvice

... Chartres (1138-1141) made him a permanent advocate of liberal education; but to no avail; the influence of Paris and the rising tide of Aristotelianism gained the day. As a champion of the newly-recovered works of Aristotle (see p. 42) he was more in accord with the ...

— Readings in the History of Education - Mediaeval Universities • Arthur O. Norton

... involves a surrender for ever of the high literary and scientific standard of Dublin University, and a permanent lowering of high class education in Ireland. Against the one I feel bound to protest, as an earnest Protestant, and against the other as an advocate for the advancement of science ...

— University Education in Ireland • Samuel Haughton

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