To call to, to create, to summon from nowhere, to forge from nothingness, to cause something to come into being where it previously did not exist. As humans we have this power to imagine and thus evoke anything we can possibly think of - the possibilities are endless We are dreamers, shapers, singers, makers. Have you evoked your emotions today?

E*voke" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evoked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Evoking.] [L. evocare; e out + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice: cf. F 'evoquer. See Voice, and cf. Evocate.]

1.

To call out; to summon forth.

To evoke the queen of the fairies. T. Warton.

A requlating discipline of exercise, that whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. De Quincey.

2.

To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another.

[R.] "The cause was evoked to Rome."

Hume.

 

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