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evocation|ɛvəʊˈkeɪʃən|
[ad. L. ēvocātiōn-em, n. of action f. ēvocāre: see evoke.]
The action of evoking; a calling forth or out.
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a. The calling (of a person) from a specified place or association; (of the spirit) from present surroundings. Obs.
1574Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. (1577) 202 In this euocation of Abraham is taught howe needefull it is to..Gods people, to be deuided and drawn from vices. 1612–5Bp. Hall Contempl. O.T. xx. ii, The hastie evocation of so noted a person, to such a secrecie. a1631Donne Serm. cxxi. V. 150 His Night-watchings are Ecstatics and Evocations of his Soul into the Presence and Communion of Saints. a1640Jackson Creed xii. vii, The Greek Ἐκκλησία [signifies] a society elected or called out. This evocation or selection is of divers sorts.
transf.1656tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. (1839) 448 Our spirits and blood, and whatsoever is fluid within us, is called out from the internal to the external parts of our bodies..He that can give a possible cause of this evocation and swelling [etc.].
b. Rom. Antiq. The calling upon the gods of a besieged city to forsake it and come over to the besiegers.
1656Cowley Davideis iv. notes 149 Their solemn Evocation of Gods from the Cities which they besieged. 1753in Chambers Cycl. Supp. 1853De Quincey Wks. (1862) XIV. 73 The Pagan practice of evocation applied to the tutelary deities of such a state.
†2. = avocation 2, 3.
1769Hist. Europe in Ann. Reg. 2/2 If the empress of Russia finds no evocation from disturbances at home..the Turkish empire may..fall by the hands of a woman. 1810Scott Let. to W. Hayley 12 July, A number of most unpoetical evocations have made me appear very ungrateful.
3. a. The evoking or calling up a spirit. Const. of. b. The formula to be used in evoking a spirit.
a.1633Ames Agst. Cerem. ii. 147 [They] paved the way for invocation of Saints in heaven, and evocation of men out of Hell. 1681H. More in Glanvill's Sadducismus Postscr. 43 She turning her face from Saul, mutters to her self some Magical form of evocation of Spirits. 1843Blackw. Mag. LIV. 675 The rapidity of her evocation was most surprising, as M. de Cagliostro had no idea of the person I should desire him to call up. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 83 Divination and evocations are practised with increasing credulity.
b.1631A. B. tr. Raleigh's Ghost i. xiii. 208 The like Negromantical euocation to be made by Scipio, is read in Siluius. 1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit., Dreams Dawn Philos., The abbot..sent three or four leaves stuffed with the names of devils, and with their evocations.
4. The calling out or removal of a cause or action from an inferior to a superior court; = med.L. evocatio, Fr. évocation.
[1611Cotgr., Evocation, an euocation..also, a calling before one by authoritie; a transferring, or remouing of causes vnto a higher Court by command of the Judges thereof.] 1644Bp. Maxwell Prerog. Kings i. 8 Nor can he be debarred..by precognition.. or evocation to determine or Judge in any thing that concerneth that his Kingdome. 1682News fr. France 10 The one [Edict] was that no Protestant may have the Relief of an Evocation (or appeal) from any Court of Justice. 1694Falle Jersey vii. 206 We have a Jurisdiction established among our selves, and our Properties secured against vexatious suits and Evocations into England. 1759Hume Hist. Eng. (1818) IV. 90 The evocation which came a few days after from Rome. 1791St. Papers in Ann. Reg. 171* The citizens cannot be withdrawn from the judges..by any other attributions or evocations than those which are determined by the laws. 1832in Webster. 1862S. Lucas Secularia 363 Other matters..were from time to time withdrawn from the ordinary tribunals, and by a process of evocation transferred to the Council.
5. a. The action of evoking or calling forth into existence or activity; an instance of the same. Const. of. Also concr.
1775Harris Philos. Arrangem. (1841) 259 There is no one..who imagines..every recent production..to be an absolutely fresh creation..an evocation of something out of nothing. 1822De Quincey Confess. (1862) 84 Magical power of evocation which Christianity has put forth. 1845R. W. Hamilton Pop. Educ. iv. (ed. 2) 84 You have caused him who was created a thinking being, to think. You have done reverence to the Father of spirits in the evocation of that spirit. 1861McCaul Aids to Faith v. 215 The evocation of light is the prominent object of the first day's work. 1881E. Mulford Republic of God viii. 173 The faith which is the gift and the evocation of this revelation. 1887Gladstone in Times 6 Sept. 12/3 There is a growing necessity for the cultivation of local resources..the evocation of which will be a most healthy proceeding.
b. With reference to the Platonic theory of recollection (ἀνάµνησις): A calling up of knowledge acquired in a previous state of existence.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. To Rdr. A iij a, We could be content with Plato, that knowledge were but Remembrance; that Intellectual acquisition were but Reminiscentiall evocation. 1865Grote Plato I. xix. 530 This magical evocation of knowledge from an untaught youth.
†6. Gram. (See quots.) Obs.
1612Brinsley Pos. Parts (1669) 27 Every Vocative case is of the second Person..by a figure called Evocation..Because Tu or Vos are understood in every Voc. case. 1657J. Smith Myst. Rhet. 190 Evocation is an immediate Reduction of the third person either to the first or second. 1678–96Phillips Evocation, in Grammar it is a figure of Construction, being a reducing of the third Person, either to the first or second; as Ego tuæ deliciæ istuc veniam.
7. Biochem. and Embryol. The action of an evocator.
1934[see evocator b]. 1940C. H. Waddington Organisers & Genes iv. 24 Evocation can be produced by compounds of several radically different kinds. 1963J. Cohen Living Embryos 52 The chemical stimulation [resulting in induction] is called evocation. |