What is "invoke"

Usage examples of "invoke".

State legislation involved is found to conflict with certain acts of Congress, and in which the principle of national supremacy is invoked by the Court.

The Cuthites of Ethiopia Africana had the same high opinion of themselves: hence Calasiris in Heliodorus invokes the Sun as his great ancestor.

Hada Bai An Assamese goddess of wealth, she was also invoked when one wished to financially ruin an enemy.

Ruthgreen was the sixth and final link in a chain of mystical defenses which, when activated, would band the Asti together, able to invoke their Goddess with one, strong voice to aid them against the enemy.

And on he went, invoking the illustrious names of Bernoulli, Fourier, Ampere, Boltzmann and Maxwell.

Mistrusting magic, Sunbright had unsheathed his sword before Candlemas could invoke the shift spell.

Invoking Kozah, the Storm Lord, Candlemas shot his sleeves, locked his fingers, and conjured.

Then he swung violently away, hands rising to the sky as if invoking the gods whose gardens surrounded them.

Nevertheless, the simple facts about Antarctica are really strange and difficult to explain without invoking some notion of sudden, catastrophic and geologically recent change.

Ndemi, while your parents are asleep, you and your companions will meet me deep in the woods, and you in your turn and they in theirs will learn one last tradition of the Kikuyu, for I will invoke not only the strength of Ngai but also the indomitable spirit of Jomo Kenyatta.

Soon, nevertheless, there insinuates itself the realization that there is in this work neither the all-creating spirit the composer so magniloquently invokes, nor the heaven he strives so ardently to attain.

Watching her stand there in the field, garlanded with meadowsweet to invoke the Mother of Rains, seeing her uplift a Rod burning with the Fire and call the rainclouds to her with Flame and poetry.

As little as Mohammed, when he invoked the Meccans in wild poetic inspirations to array themselves behind him to seek the blessedness of future life, had dreamt of the possibility that twenty years later the whole of Arabia would acknowledge his authority in this world, as little, nay, much less, could he at the close of his life have had the faintest premonition of the fabulous development which his state would reach half a century later.

Israelite Yahweh, whom he invoked to protect his flocks, the Philistine Ashtoreth, whom he entreated to send him comely and compliant maidens, and the Midianite Sin, who, though a moon god, seemed to be good for luck in general.

Assyrians invoked the bull who guarded the gates: O great bull, O very great bull, which stampest high, which openest access to the interior .