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.
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To evoke the queen of the fairies. --T. Warton.
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A regulating discipline of exercise, that whilst
evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to
be wasted. --De Quincey.
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2. To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another. [R.]
"The cause was evoked to Rome." --Hume. Evolatic
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
evoke
v 1: call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse
pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" [syn: arouse,
elicit, enkindle, kindle, fire, raise, provoke]
2: call forth; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the
couple" [syn: provoke, call forth, kick up]
3: deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out
some interesting linguistic data from the native
informant" [syn: educe, elicit, extract, draw out]
4: evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic; "raise the
specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the
air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from
the mountain" [syn: raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke,
stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward,
call forth]
5: call to mind or evoke [syn: suggest, paint a picture]
WordNet (r) 2.0
165 Moby Thesaurus words for "evoke":
ape, appear like, approach, approximate, arouse, awake, awaken,
be like, be redolent of, bear resemblance, bid come, bring,
bring about, bring back, bring forth, bring on, bring out,
bring to life, bring to light, bring to mind, call, call away,
call back, call for, call forth, call in, call out, call to mind,
call together, call up, call up spirits, cause, character,
characterize, cite, come close, come near, compare with, conjure,
conjure up, conjure up spirits, contrive, convene, convoke, copy,
correspond, counterfeit, deduce, delineate, demand, depict, derive,
describe, drag out, draw, draw down, draw forth, draw on, draw out,
educe, effect, elicit, evince, excite, express, extort, extract,
favor, follow, get, get from, get out of, give words to, go back,
go back over, hark back, imitate, indent, induce, inspire,
instigate, invoke, lead, limn, look back, look like, match, milk,
mimic, mind, mirror, motivate, muster, muster up, near,
nearly reproduce, not tell apart, obtain, order up, outline, page,
paint, parallel, partake of, picture, portray, preconize, procure,
prompt, provoke, raise, raise ghosts, rally, recall,
recall to mind, recapture, recollect, reevoke, reflect, remember,
remind one of, render, represent, requisition, resemble, retrace,
retrospect, review, review in retrospect, revive, rouse, savor of,
secure, see in retrospect, seem like, send after, send for, serve,
set forth, simulate, sketch, smack of, sound like, stack up with,
stimulate, stir, subpoena, suggest, summon, summon forth,
summon spirits, summon up, summons, superinduce, take after,
think back, think of, use hindsight, waken, wangle, wangle out of,
winkle out, worm out, worm out of, write
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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