Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To invoke.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To call on or for in supplication; invoke.
- To call as in supplication.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To invoke; to call on, or for, in supplication; to implore.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
invoke orimplore - verb To
summon orconjure up
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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How can Barack Obama, the first black president of the United States of America, invite one of the most divisive religious leaders in the world to invocate his inauguration?
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How can Barack Obama, the first black president of the United States of America, invite one of the most divisive religious leaders in the world to invocate his inauguration?
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But, since you invocate austers for the trailing of vixens, I would like to send a cormorant around this blue lagoon.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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“Advise now, you that think it folly to invocate Neptune in tempest.”
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But would you not hold it expedient, before we proceed any further, that we should invocate Hercules and the Tenetian goddesses who in the chamber of lots are said to rule, sit in judgment, and bear a presidential sway?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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But would you not hold it expedient, before we proceed any further, that we should invocate Hercules and the Tenetian goddesses who in the chamber of lots are said to rule, sit in judgment, and bear a presidential sway?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Today, you remain in awe of the Dow and its throbbing green aura, but, like Grandma Mati running laps around her rosary beads, you have come to invocate its pantheon by rote.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom 1994
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In the cry of the saints unto the Lord for the execution of his judgments and vengeance, they in an especial manner invocate his holiness, Rev. vi.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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Him in whom we believe, we ought to adore and invocate.
Christologia 1616-1683 1965
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It is the Father unto whom we have our access, whom we peculiarly invocate; as it is expressed, chap. iii.
Christologia 1616-1683 1965
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