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Evoke
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To call out; to summon forth. To evoke the queen of the fairies. T. Warton. A requlating 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. [R.] "The cause was evoked to Rome." Hume.