Crossword clues for evoked
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Evoke \E*voke"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evoked; p. pr. & vb. n. Evoking.] [L. evocare; e out + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice: cf. F ['e]voquer. See Voice, and cf. Evocate.]
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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. To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another. [R.] ``The cause was evoked to Rome.''
--Hume.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: evoke)
WordNet
adj. called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation; "evoked potentials"; "an elicited response" [syn: elicited]
Usage examples of "evoked".
It was the Hrruban's inner majesty, rather than the sumptuous richness of his dress, that evoked the reverent bows which acknowledged his entrance.
She shivered, unable to suppress the lingering sense of revulsion that that recognition touch evoked in her.
Killashandra winced inwardly, wondering why the man's simplest explanation evoked the worst side of her nature.
The familiar caress evoked familiar responses deep in her groin and she tried to use her irritation with his methods to neutralize its effect on her.
She had to dispel the unusual sense of reverence which the chamber, and its denizen, evoked in her.
Merely touching him in light intimacy evoked a response in her body, and she swayed quite willingly into his arms as they kissed.
She paused, for even the most casual reference to that phenomenon evoked a cold, mocking sense of menace within her.
An event and the feeling which was produced by the event are inextricably locked together in the brain so that one cannot be evoked without the other.
In either case the evoked recollection can be more accurately described as a reliving than a recalling.
That pale, sad, refined face, that radiant look, those gentle graceful gestures, and especially the deep and tender sorrow expressed in all her features agitated him and evoked his sympathy.
The news of that battle of Tarutino, unexpectedly received by Napoleon at a review, evoked in him a desire to punish the Russians (Thiers says), and he issued the order for departure which the whole army was demanding.
He ordered dinners and suppers and obviously tried to appear cheerful, but his cheerfulness was not infectious as it used to be: on the contrary it evoked the compassion of those who knew and liked him.
Death and the raw anger and grief it evoked were, of all things, most difficult to explain.
The phrase evoked the memory of Lwaxana’s battered face, but this time Troi found the strength to analyze it.
Herald put his hand on the creature's inert mass, and evoked the horn and eyestalk.