EVOKE

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

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.
v.

To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another. [R.] "The cause was evoked to Rome." Hume.