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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