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 'evoquer. 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.

 

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