vocat.

How to use vocat. in a sentence

• Itaque cum ille puellam vi non posset abducere, eam vocat in ius, ipso Appio iudice.

  Selections from Viri Romae | Charles Franois L'Homond

• Scio me retro ad inspiciendam altitudinem mulieris frequentius organi mentionem fecisse quod Graecitas dioptran vocat.

  Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times | John Stewart Milne

• In this reign "quinque vasa vocat' fyrkyns de prunis" each worth 6s.

  Notes and Queries, Number 235, April 29, 1854 | Various

• We hear constantly such phrases as the following: 'Quod iuncta est secum vocat rotulos ad warrantum; ponit se super rotulos.'

  Villainage in England | Paul Vinogradoff

• Timidus se vocat cautum, parcum sordidus—The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty.

  Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources | James Wood