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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EVO'KE , v.t. [L. evoco; e and voco, to call.] To call forth.
Neptune is a deity who evocates things into progression.
1. To call from one tribunal to another; to remove.
The cause was evoked to Rome.
[Evoke is the preferable word.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (evoked; evoking) Etymology: French évoquer, from Latin evocare, from e- + vocare to call — more at vocation Date: circa 1622 1. to call forth or up: as a. conjure 2a <evoke evil spirits> b. to cite especially with approval or for support ; invoke c. to bring to mind or recollection <this place evokes memories> 2. to recreate imaginatively Synonyms: see educe

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 inspire or draw forth (memories, feelings, a response, etc.). 2 summon (a supposed spirit from the dead). Derivatives: evocation n. evoker n. Etymology: L evocare (as E-, vocare call)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(evokes, evoking, evoked) To evoke a particular memory, idea, emotion, or response means to cause it to occur. (FORMAL) ...the scene evoking memories of those old movies... VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Summon, call forth, call up, summon forth. 2. Excite, arouse, elicit, call out, rouse, provoke.

Moby Thesaurus

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