Found 2 items, similar to avouch.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: avouch avouch v : admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about [syn: avow] [ant: disavow]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Avouch Avouch \A*vouch"\, n. Evidence; declaration. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Avouch \A*vouch"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Avouched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Avouching.] [OF. avochier, LL. advocare to recognize the existence of a thing, to advocate, fr. L. advocare to call to; ad + vocare to call. Cf. Avow to declare, Advocate, and see Vouch, v. t.] 1. To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] They avouch many successions of authorities. --Coke. [1913 Webster] 2. To maintain a just or true; to vouch for. [1913 Webster] We might be disposed to question its authenticity, it if were not avouched by the full evidence. --Milman. [1913 Webster] 3. To declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to affirm openly. [1913 Webster] If this which he avouches does appear. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Such antiquities could have been avouched for the Irish. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 4. To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction. [1913 Webster] Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God. --Deut. xxvi. 17. [1913 Webster]