E·voke v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evoked p. pr. & vb. n. Evoking.]
1. To call out; to summon forth.
To evoke the queen of the fairies. --T. Warton.
A regulating discipline of exercise, that whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. --De Quincey.
2. To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another. [R.] “The cause was evoked to Rome.”
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evoke
v 1: call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse
pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" [syn: arouse,
elicit, enkindle, kindle, fire, raise, provoke]
2: call forth; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the
couple" [syn: provoke, call forth, kick up]
3: deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out
some interesting linguistic data from the native
informant" [syn: educe, elicit, extract, draw out]
4: evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic; "raise the
specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the
air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from
the mountain" [syn: raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke,
stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward,
call forth]
5: call to mind or evoke [syn: suggest, paint a picture]