The Collaborative International Dictionary
Invoke \In*voke"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Invoked; p. pr. & vb. n. Invoking.] [F. invoquer, L. invocare; pref. in- in, on + vocare to call, fr. vox voice. See Voice, and cf. Invocate.] To call on for aid or protection; to invite earnestly or solemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand by invocation; to implore; as, to invoke the Supreme Being, or to invoke His and blessing.
Go, my dread lord, to your great grandsire's tomb, . .
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Invoke his warlike spirit.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of invoke English)
Usage examples of "invoking".
Not an easy deity to use, without great experience and restraint, as the excesses carried out under his name need to be kept in check while invoking the free spirit and the renewal of life.
As you add the herbs, repeat your chant about the energies you are invoking in the herbs.
You can also sound the bell in each of the four elemental quadrants, before creating the invoking pentagram, to request the presence of each elemental guardian.
However, the wand seems more effective for casting and uncasting circles, invoking quarters and closing power.
Decide whether it will be divided into phases, such as invoking the four elements, raising and releasing the power (see pages 40-1) or merge into one.
But the indirect approach of invoking symmetry under changes of locale is far easier.
Without invoking any dualities, we still have five disjointed (collections of) theories.
And so, rather than invoking the anthropic principle, Smolin's suggestion provides a dynamic mechanism that, on average, drives the parameters of each next-generation universe ever closer to particular values—those that are optimum for black hole production.
I am Channa Hap, brawn to Simeon and we are invoking section two, article two of the station's charter.
Now, we can clear all this up by invoking the Professional Immunity Act but.
Karen wanted to warn the others that the goddess they had been invoking had come to them, but she had no control over that body’s voice now.
It was her quick way of invoking the power of her predecessors’ spirits, asking them to enter into her and guide her to do the right thing.
He heard Koshmar invoking the Five Heavenly Ones, saw her making the Five Signs, and then the sign of Yissou the Protector over and over.
But as she completed the circuit of the room she halted before it now, and to her astonishment she found herself invoking a god she did not know, the mysterious Sixth of whom Hresh had spoken a little while before.
Even now, Rani could envision the Holy Father standing in the guildhall's convocation chamber, invoking Clain, the glaziers' god, while Defender of the Faith Shanoranvilli presented Salina with a large purse of gold coins, rewarding her for royal commissions well completed in the prior year.