invocate
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of invocate
1520–30; < Latin invocātus (past participle of invocāre to call upon, invoke ), equivalent to in- in- 2 + vocā ( re ) to call + -tus past participle suffix
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No considerable work has yet been composed, but its author, like an ancient magician, retired first to the grove or the closet, to invocate his spirits.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli
No considerable work was ever composed till its author, like an ancient magician, first retired to the grove, or to the closet, to invocate.
From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Isaac Disraeli
Celestial powers on you I invocate; You know the chaste affections of my mind, I never did my faith yet violate; Why should my Chloris then be so unkind?
From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Martha Foote Crow
Some call on heaven, some invocate on hell, And Fates and Furies, with their woes acquaint.
From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Martha Foote Crow
Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth Than those old nine which rhymers invocate; And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth Eternal numbers to outlive long date.
From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Sir Sidney Lee
"The saints reigning together with Christ are to be honored and invocated; … they offer prayers to God for us… their relics are to be venerated."—Creed of Pope Pius IV.
From Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America by G. Whitfield Ray
Greek and Roman magicians invocated spirits by prayers to the moon, and sacrifices of milk, honey, and blood.
From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James Grant
Is she then invocated, or is she not?
From The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley
Verily he hath forbidden you to eat that which dieth of itself, and blood and swine's flesh, and that on which any other name but GOD'S hath been invocated.
From The Koran (Al-Qur'an) by George Sale
Argumts to prove either must be as 1 if they can pve ye pty hath invocated ye devill for his help this pt of yt ye devill binds withes to.
From The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) by John M. (John Metcalf) Taylor
Yet we are told they remained in their dungeons “with much joy and great comfort, in continual reading and invocating the name of God, ever looking and expecting the happy day of their dissolution.”
From The King's Daughters by Emily Sarah Holt
But upon his invocating the Lord Jesus, they failed in their attempt.
From The Purgatory of St. Patrick by Denis Florence MacCarthy
Perhaps it was gathered during the invocating influence of the following charm, which may be found in the 12th book, chap.
From Thaumaturgia by An Oxonian
She was a pretty, invocating, weak-mouthed girl, whose chief defect as a companion with her sex was a tendency to peevishness now and then.
From Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy
"Grace!" said Fitzpiers, in an indescribable whisper—more than invocating, if not quite deprecatory.
From The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
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