• oyes

FromMiddle Englishoyes, fromOld Frenchoyez, the imperative plural ofoir(“hear; listen”), fromLatinaudīre.

Commonly folk-etymologized as (and pronounced homophonously to)O +yes in the early modern period.

• (UK)IPA^(key):/ˈəʊˌjeɪ/,IPA^(key):/oʊˈjeɪ/,IPA^(key):/oʊˈjɛs/

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• (US)IPA^(key):/oʊˈjeɪ/
• Rhymes:-eɪ,(UK)-ɛs
• Hyphenation:o‧yez

oyez

1. Hear ye. Attend. (Called by publiccriers or incourt usually three times to secure silence and/or attentiveness).

• It is still used in the United States Supreme Court, similar to calling “order”, and in many state supreme courts, though some lower courts have dropped its use.

oyez (pluraloyezes)

1. A cry of "oyez".

oyez (no third-person singular simple present,no present participle,no simple past or past participle)

1. (transitive,rare) Toproclaim with acry of "oyez".
   • 1599,[Thomas] Nashe,Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London:[…] [Thomas Judson andValentine Simmes] forN[icholas] L[ing] andC[uthbert] B[urby] […],→OCLC,page 3:

     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 wasooyeſſed.

• Webster's International Dictionary: 1902.
• Concise Oxford: 1981.

• Yezo,Zoey

• IPA^(key):/ɔ.je/,/wa.je/

oyez

1. second-personpluralimperative ofouïr

• oiez
• oez

oyez

1. second-personpluralpresentindicative ofoir
2. second-personpluralimperative ofoir