I.a calling off from a thing, a diverting of the attention, diversion, interruption (very rare): avocatio a cogitandā molestiā, * Cic. Tusc. 3, 15, 33: “In his, quae me sine avocatione circumstrepunt, etc.,” Sen. Ep. 56, 4.
āvŏcātĭo , ōnis, f. id.,