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Evoking

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.]

  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.''
    --Hume.

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evoking

vb. (present participle of evoke English)

Usage examples of "evoking".

The former Incarnation did have a talent for the business, and was excellent at evoking the hidden evil of mortals.

Only Chronos could actually travel to past times, but there were demons in Hell who could recreate past scenes with fair accuracy by evoking them from substances that had been present when the scenes occurred.

But this shows how I can't even go to check rain without evoking all manner of oddities.

His insistent mouth was parting her shaking lips, sending wild tremors along her nerves, evoking from her sensations she had never known she was capable of feelĀ­ing.

He was muttering things she did not hear, his lips were evoking feelings never felt before.

Carmen always looked so placid and imperturb able when she was evoking her Talent as finder.

The omnipotent, omniscient Masters, speaking from their immense and encyclopedic knowledge of all forms of music and their total understanding of the universe and Man's subliminal relationship with the Natural World, do not believe that this facet of Optherian life needs to be celebrated at any point in the year, certainly not during the Summer Festival when off-worlders might possibly hear something evoking a valid Optherian subculture and more original than variations on the usual pre-predigested pap that 'accredited' composers churn out.

Her voice dropped expressively on the last word, evoking for F'lar a happier girlhood.

But he continued with the routine business of his office, evoking evil wherever he could.

At first Parry encouraged the new order in Germany, for it brought some truly ugly characters to the fore, excellent in evoking what evil lurked in the populace.

I permitted the names of my father and my mother to be pronounced, but a certain delicacy kept me from evoking Plotina.

I could not help looking at them, could not eface them, and could not help evoking them.