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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
advoke .
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After the departure of Campeggio, the further hearing of the divorce cause had been advoked to Rome, where it was impossible for
The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856
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"His Holiness answering the same, as touching the first point, said that if the queen (meaning the late wife of Prince Arthur, calling her always in his conversation the queen) had not given an oath refusing the judges as suspect, he would not have advoked the matter at all, but been content that it should have been determined and ended in your realm.
The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856
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