A Dictionary of the English Language/avocation
Avoca’iton. [from avocatc]
1. The act of calling aſide. Dryden.
2. The buſinefg that calls. Hale
Cosmo Monkhouse was one of those who have not only a vocation, but an avocation. His first bias was to poetry ...[[Author:|1911 Encyclopædia Britannica]].
I am a lead pencil—the ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all boys and girls and adults who can read and write.
Writing is both my vocation and my avocation; that's all I doEssays on Liberty.