英语词汇“invoke”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	invoke
释义	in·voke \ə̇nˈvōk\ transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English invoken, from Middle French invoquer, from Latin invocare, from in- in- (II) + vocare to call, from voc-, vox voice — more at voice 1. a. : to petition for help or support : call upon for assistance < the gods had to be invoked to bring rain — T.E.Sanford > < she would invoke the Travelers' Aid Society, and they would assist her in getting a … place to live — Donn Byrne > b. : to appeal to as furnishing authority or motive : propound as a logical basis < racist doctrines are invoked for political ends — Ruth Benedict > < invoke the balance-of-payments difficulties to justify … import prohibitions — Economist > < four theories … invoked by geographers to explain the origin or the areas — S.A.Cain > < imaginary lesions … invoked to account for conditions which had a merely psychogenic origin — R.S.Ellery > 2. a. : to call forth by incantation : conjure 2 < spokesmen for the two tribes invoked the spirits of departed … chiefs to tell them they were now as one — Time > < invoke a plague on all their houses — W.L.Sperry > b. : to use (a respected name) to imply endorsement by the owner < more misquotations probably have been attributed to Jefferson than to any other American, because many politicians who invoke his name have read him not at all — L.B.Wright > 3. a. : to make an earnest request for : solicit < invoke the board's help in getting his old job back — Dixon Wecter > < the student of genetics invokes the aid of the physicist and biochemist — J.M.Fogg > b. : entreat, implore < invoke mercy > < invoked their forgiveness > 4. a. : to call for (as papers or other evidence) judicially — used chiefly in admiralty prize procedure b. : to put into legal effect or call for the observance of : enforce, implement < invoke the penalties of the law — Albert Mowbray > < military sanctions may be invoked only after economic sanctions have failed — Normal Hill > < invoked the veto six times in the dispute — C.D.Fuller > < invoke a promise > < unhesitatingly invoked the health department's broad powers — Leonard Engel > < because it possesses that right … can usually discipline the majority without invoking its prerogative — Foreign Affairs > 5. a. : to introduce or put into operation : instigate, employ < controls alien to … peacetime custom will have to be invoked — Stacy May > < invoke bold visions at a time of unrest — Norman Cousins > < discipline should not be invoked … without first consulting the union — Earl Brown > < alliteration's artful aid is invoked on every page — Irish Digest > b. : to bring about : cause, excite < operations … invoke new problems of administration, maintenance and supply — H.H.Arnold & I.C.Eaker > < stabilizing the regime and invoking social and patriotic fervor — E.P.Snow >
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