A Dictionary of the English Language/avocation

by Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

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.