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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