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evocate, v.|ˈɛvəkeɪt|
[f. L. ēvocāt- ppl. stem of ēvocāre: see evoke.]
†1. trans. To call forth. Obs. in gen. sense.
1639Bp. Reynolds Lord's Supp. xviii, The seed to be scattered..the Sun to evocate and excite the seminal virtue. 1665G. Harvey Advice agst. Plague 6 The said Arsenical bodies..require..a very dry and warm..air, to melt and open the surface of the Earth..to attract and evocate them thence. [Misquoted by Johnson s.v. Evacate.]
2. To call up (spirits) from the dead, (events) from past times.
1675J. Smith Chr. Relig. Appeal ii. 10 Thyestes his Ghost groans..when ere that is evocated to attend the pleasure of the black Artist. 1732Stackhouse Hist. Bible v. iii. iii, [Saul] thinking there was any efficacy in magical operations to evocate the dead. 1817Byron Let. Murray 15 Feb. in Wks. (1846) 175/2 He..goes..to evocate a ghost. 1822T. Taylor Apuleius 277 The ancient Egyptians evocated the souls of demons, or angels, and inserted them in sacred images. 1827Sir H. Taylor Isaac Comnenus i. iv, Where memory evocates imperial deeds Such as betray'd Britannicus of old. 1851G. S. Faber Many Mansions (1862) 392 note, Here Ulysses evocates the souls of the dead.
3. nonce-use. To call out (from a house, etc.).
1834Beckford Italy II. 228 Driving to the palace [I] evocated the archbishop's confessor.
Hence ˈevocated, ppl. a.
1816G. S. Faber Orig. Pagan Idol. III. 350 The evocated spirits come up. |