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rior being; earnest and solemn entreaty; esp., prayer offered to a divine being. Sweet invocation of a child; most pretty and pathetical! Shak. The whole poem is a prayer to Fortune, and the invocation is divided between the two deities. Addison.

Making or containing invocation; invoking.

The state or quality of being irrevocable; irrevocableness.

apable of being recalled or revoked; unchangeable; irreversible; unalterable; as, an irrevocable promise or decree; irrevocable fate. Firm and irrevocable is my doom. Shak. -- Ir*rev"o*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ir*rev"o*ca*bly, adv.

Of or pertaining to the ischium and the capsule of the hip joint; as, the ischiocapsular ligament.

The act or practice of jesting. [Obs.]

. See Kyaboca wood.

Amboyna wood.

is represented only by a simple, unsegmented notochord. See Amphioxus. [Written also Leptocardii.]

Of or pertaining to the Leptocardia. -- n.

Fossil fruit; a fruit petrified; a carpolite.

e, or to a definite region or portion of space; restricted to one place or region; as, a local custom. Gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Shak. Local actions (Law), actions such as must be brought in a particular county, where the cause arises; -- distinguished from transitory actions. -- Local affec…

A place, spot, or location.

The state or quality of being local; affection for a particular place.

gels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality. Glanvill.

Act of localizing, or state of being localized. Cerebral localization (Physiol.), the localization of the control of special functions, as of sight or of the various movements of the body, in special regions of the brain.

To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place. H. Spencer. Wordsworth.

With respect to place; in place; as, to be locally separated or distant.

a particular spot or position. The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter. B. F. Westcott.

The act or process of locating.