Invoke
[ɪn'vəʊk] or [ɪn'vok]
Definition
(verb.) 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'.
Inputed by Byron--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To call on for aid or protection; to invite earnestly or solemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand by invocation; to implore; as, to invoke the Supreme Being, or to invoke His and blessing.
Typist: Rowland
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Implore, supplicate, pray, entreat, beg, beseech, conjure, ADJURE, importune, solicit, call upon, pray to, appeal to, prefer a request to.
Inputed by Evelyn
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Summon, call, imprecate, conjure, invite, challenge, invocate, implore,beseech, appeal_to
ANT:Deprecate, ignore, warn, inhibit, elude, defy, deter
Checker: Rudolph
Definition
v.t. to call upon earnestly or solemnly: to implore assistance: to address in prayer.
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Examples
- He knew well that I should never willingly invoke the aid of the police against him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- And really, after a day or two of confusion worse confounded, it was delightful by degrees to invoke order from the chaos ourselves had made. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- To invoke your pity, said the lovely Jewess, with a voice somewhat tremulous with emotion, would, I am aware, be as useless as I should hold it mean. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I invoke your sympathy. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- When it tries to do so by sumptuary legislation, nothing but mischief is invoked. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But this fact only indicates the need of persistent care to see to it that the function of intelligence is invoked to its maximum possibility. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But, Caroline---- Thus she invoked her daughter after a pause. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- We had invoked a spirit we could not lay. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I spoke then readily: but a swarm of thoughts I had not anticipated nor invoked, rose dim at the words, making me sigh involuntarily. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Simultaneously with this discovery on her part, her father discovered her, and invoked the echoes of Mincing Lane to exclaim 'My gracious me! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- No doubt he had invoked the help of the Holy Spirit to subdue the anger I had roused in him, and now believed he had forgiven me once more. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Sikes, invoking terrific imprecations upon Fagin's head for sending Oliver on such an errand, plied the crowbar vigorously, but with little noise. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It was Dinah's mode of invoking the domestic Muses. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Conquerors have gone forth with the blessing of popes; a nation invokes its God before beginning a campaign of murder, rape and pillage. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- When hard pressed he always invokes this idol. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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