† devocatev.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To call down.In quot. c1570 perhaps ‘to make calls or demands’, if not a misprint for derogate.
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the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [verb (transitive)] > invoke (a spirit)
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c1570 Preston Cambyses in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) IV. 188 The Commons of you do complain, From them you devocate.
1633 W. Struther True Happines 52 Superstitious worshippers thinke by their prayers, as charmes, to devocat and draw God out of heaven.
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