Also 7 vooght, vaught. [a. G. vogt (and Du. voogd, † voogt), MHG. voget, OHG. fogat, ad. med.L. vocāt-us: cf. VOCATE sb.] A steward, bailiff or similar official.
1694. Penn, Trav. Holland & Germ., 91. The Inspector of the Calvinists hath injoined the Vooght, or chief Officer, not to suffer any preaching to be among our Friends. Ibid., 109. The Vaught or chief Officer.
1762. trans. Busching’s Syst. Geog., IV. 252. He acknowledged them to be hereditary vogts of his church.
1874. Stubbs, Const. Hist., I. iii. 57. The rights of the archbishop being guarded by an advocatus or vogt,… the state was governed by its own landrath.
