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oyez
- /ˈəʊˌjeɪ/ UK
- /oʊˈjeɪ/
- /oʊˈjɛs/
- /oʊˈjeɪ/ US
Rhymes with -eɪ, (UK) -ɛs
Where it comes from
From Middle English oyes, from Old French oyez, the imperative plural of oir (“to hear; to listen”), from Latin audīre.
Commonly folk-etymologized as (and pronounced homophonously to) O + yes in the early modern period.
interjection oyes
- Hear ye. Attend. (Called by public criers or in court usually three times to secure silence or attentiveness). “Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! The Banquet is now ready!” called the two Beef Eaters, and in no time at all Palmer Cox’s resourceful Brownies had found a seat for every guest.
noun oyezes · oyes
- A cry of oyez.
verb oyes
- To proclaim with a cry of oyez. I truſte you make no queſtion about thoſe dull pated pennifathers, that in ſuch dudgen ſcorne reiected him, drunck deep of the ſowre cup of repentance for it, when the high flight of his lines in common brute was ooyeſſed.
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title = {oyez},
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