Relating to or serving to call away or distract from something; having the character of an avocation (extremely rare).
From Latin 'avocatorius,' formed from 'avocare' with the suffix '-ory' meaning 'serving to' or 'characterized by.' Another archaic legal-linguistic term.
This word, barely used anymore, was a legal term that captured how certain duties would 'call away' an official from their main post—showing how medieval lawyers described conflicts of interest.
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