Dictionary entry

Evoke

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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 évoquer. See Voice, and cf. Evocate.] 1. To call out; to summon forth.

To evoke the queen of the fairies. T. Warton.

A regulating discipline of exercise, that whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. De Quincey.

2. To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another. “The cause was evoked to Rome.” Hume.