Crossword clues for evocation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Evocation \Ev`o*ca"tion\, n. [L. evocatio: cf. F. ['e]vocation.]
The act of calling out or forth.
--Sir. T. Browne.
The evocation of that better spirit.
--M. Arnold.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from Latin evocationem (nominative evocatio) "a calling forth, a calling from concealment," noun of action from past participle stem of evocare "call out, summon; call forth, rouse, appeal to," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + vocare "to call" (see voice (n.)).\n
\nEvocatio was used of the Roman custom of petitioning the gods of an enemy city to abandon it and come to Rome; it also was used to translate the Platonic Greek anamnesis "a calling up of knowledge acquired in a previous state of existence."
Wiktionary
n. The act of calling out or forth, or evoke.
WordNet
n. imaginative re-creation
calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations [syn: summoning]
stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors; "the elicitation of his testimony was not easy" [syn: induction, elicitation]
Wikipedia
Evocation is the act of calling upon or summoning a spirit, demon, god or other supernatural agent, in the Western mystery tradition. Comparable practices exist in many religions and magical traditions and may employ the use of mind-altering substances with and without uttered word formulas.
Evocation is the act of calling or summoning a spirit, demon, god or other supernatural agent, in the Western mystery tradition.
Evocation may also refer to:
- Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion, a 2009 folk album
- Evocation - a method of compressing communication into very high-level information, as described in the novel A Fire Upon the Deep by computer scientist Vernor Vinge
Evocation are a death metal band from Borås, Sweden.
Usage examples of "evocation".
He made his Evocation, and a small whirlwind spun up in the center of that arch just to its peak.
Emma had recognized at once that it was an evocation of her own first design and as such a little tribute to her, and she was flattered.
There was no sign of dread, however, in that evocation of the peaceful little cemetery of Janville and the family grave in which all the children hoped some day to be laid, one after the other, side by side.
Rather did that evocation, coming amid that gay wedding assembly, seem like a promise of future blessed peace.
Beneath that as an evocation of existential loneliness, a Christian fable, a parable of the artist.
There was no way out of the kitchen, no time to use an explosive evocation in close quarters, and the deadly scorpions would rip me to pieces well before Victor could blow me up with explosive magic or one of the blood-maddened Beckitts could get their guns working long enough to put a few more bullets in me.
It is one of the most attractive evocations of Old Russian life in the whole of literature.
But what is perhaps especially wonderful is the evocations of nature, full of intense suggestiveness and pregnant poetry.
Their commands would be by mail, or evocations that a sharp observer might suspect.
I had anything, even the quickest evocations, that I could get out of my mouth before she tore it off of my head.
Renowned in occult circles throughout Europe, he had achieved successes in every type of mediumistic endeavor, from levitation to clairvoyance, from telepathy and telekinesis to the various forms of spirit evocation and ectoplasmic materialization.
His soul had moved amid similar evocations in some aeonian past, whence now the sand was being cleaned away.
Can I integrate the minuscule observations of this behaviour of the chicks I work with and the chemistry of their brains with such richness of evocation?
Along with the Enochian alphabet and language, Dee and Kelley received a set of nineteen different Keys or Calls intended to be used in the evocation of various orders of the angelic hierarchy.
Upon the stage then stepped the figures of this pair of human beings, chanting their ancient plain-song of incantation in the moonlit desert, and working their rites of unholy evocation as the priests had worked them centuries before in the sands that now buried Sakkara fathoms deep.