LekhoriLekhoriTo declare freely and openly; to assert.
Neither indeede would I have thought, that any such antiquities could have been avouched for the Irish, that maketh me the more to long to see some other of your observations, which you have gathered out of that country […]
To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.
Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice: And the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;
To confirm or verify, to affirm the validity of.
For ([…] as the sorowfull dooings of our present dayes do too certeinly avouch) greate men hurt not the common weale so much by beeing evil in respect of themselves, as by drawing others unto evil by their evil example.
evidence; declaration
Before my God, I might not this believe Without the sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes.
From Old French avouchier, from Latin advocāre. Doublet of advocate, advoke, and avow.
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