invocations

This doubling of the invocations is a remnant of an ancient custom whereby the Litany was sung once on behalf of the catechumens while processing to the baptistery, again while returning to the church, welcoming the newly baptized into the company of the Saints.

Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 6.2 - Holy Saturday and the Blessing of the Font, Litany of the Saints, Mass and Vespers 2009

You contrast this with your own commitment to art-for-art's-sake, in invocations of Emily Dickinson and phrases like "labor of love" ... and seemingly oblivious of the shallow and self-important posturing this will almost certainly communicate to most readers.

How Not to be a Writer Hal Duncan 2009

You contrast this with your own commitment to art-for-art's-sake, in invocations of Emily Dickinson and phrases like "labor of love" ... and seemingly oblivious of the shallow and self-important posturing this will almost certainly communicate to most readers.

Archive 2009-01-01 Hal Duncan 2009

Out of his satchel Monsignor took a golden cylinder, unscrewed the top, dipped his thumb in what appeared to be an oily substance, and applied it to Tim's eyes, to his ears, his nose, his mouth, the palms of his hands, and the soles of his feet, distinctly repeating certain Latin invocations as he worked.

The Art of Disappearing John Talbot Smith 1889

I said that he seems to be justified in concluding that there was a popular idea of such a kind, which the State religion did not recognise; but that it can very easily be explained as the natural effect of a degenerate Greek mythology, popularised by Greek dramas adapted to the Roman stage, upon certain peculiarities of the Roman theology, and especially the functional combination of male and female divine names in Italian invocations of the deities.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

There is not very much religious in kind of invocations usually his statements have a lot of religious.

CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2007 2007

Disunionists; reversing the divine rule, and calling, not the sinners, but the righteous, to repentance; such as invocations to Washington, imploring men to unsay what Washington said, and undo what Washington did.

The Life of Abraham Lincoln Henry Ketcham

Disunionists, reversing the divine rule, and calling, not the sinners, but the righteous to repentance; such as invocations to Washington, imploring men to unsay what Washington said and undo what Washington did.

Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings Various 1921

Disunionists; reversing the divine rule, and calling, not the sinners, but the righteous to repentance; such as invocations to

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

Union men to yield to Disunionists, reversing the divine rule, and calling, not the sinners, but the righteous to repentance -- such as invocations to Washington, imploring men to unsay what Washington said, and undo what Washington did.

Abraham Lincoln George Haven Putnam 1887