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invoke::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, put forward, raise, stir |
| Type of | summon, call up |
| Has types | imprecate, maledict, bless, damn, anathemise, beshrew, bedamn, anathemize, curse |
| Verb group | call forth, evoke, kick up, provoke |
| Derivation | invocation |
Examples of invoke
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He went on to invoke the ghosts of Maupassant and Hemingway, Chekhov and Carver.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The FDA had to invoke bioterrorism laws to get testing records from Peanut Corp.
From the thestate.com
The majority that want the practice of Islam curtailed invoke scholarly support.
From the economist.com
Simply to say their names, and hers, is to invoke an era of mirror-ball glamour.
From the time.com
Boards never know when they may have to invoke an emergency CEO succession plan.
From the businessweek.com
It is unlikely that NATO would again invoke Article 5, as it has in Afghanistan.
From the economist.com
In common law jurisdictions, the defendant may invoke the defense of entrapment.
From the en.wikipedia.org
You can invoke reciprocity by giving exactly what you hope to get in the future.
From the business.time.com
He has been one of 10 parents or guardians to invoke Nebraska's safe haven law.
From the omaha.com
- Raise: 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"
- Cite as an authority; resort to; "He invoked the law that would save him"; "I appealed to the law of 1900"; "She invoked an ancient law"
- Appeal: request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection; "appeal to somebody for help"; "Invoke God in times of trouble"
- An invocation (from the Latin verb invocare "to call on, invoke") may take the form of: *Supplication or prayer. *A form of possession. *Command or conjuration. *Self-identification with certain spirits.
- To call upon (a person, especially a god) for help, assistance or guidance; To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority; To conjure up with incantations; To bring about as an inevitable consequence; To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude; (computing) To cause ...
- Send a message to an object. Object COBOL defines a new verb, INVOKE, to enable you to send messages.
- (v.) to call a subroutine by a CALL statement or by a defined assignment statement. To call a function by a reference to it by name or operator during the evaluation of an expression.
- To ask a procedure to do its work and come up with a return value. For example, "Invoke the + procedure," or "Invoke the + procedure with the arguments 3 and 4."
- V. To call a spirit or Deity into the Circle.
