From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
evoke
v 1: call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse
pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" [syn: {arouse},
{elicit}, {enkindle}, {kindle}, {evoke}, {fire}, {raise},
{provoke}]
2: evoke or provoke to appear or occur; "Her behavior provoked a
quarrel between the couple" [syn: {provoke}, {evoke}, {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}, {evoke}, {elicit}, {extract}, {draw out}]
4: summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by
magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild
birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"
[syn: {raise}, {conjure}, {conjure up}, {invoke}, {evoke},
{stir}, {call down}, {arouse}, {bring up}, {put forward},
{call forth}]
5: call to mind; "this remark evoked sadness" [syn: {suggest},
{evoke}, {paint a picture}]
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