Found 2 items, similar to Evoke.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: evoke
evoke
v 1: call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses);
“arouse
pity”;
“raise a smile”;
“evoke sympathy” [syn:
arouse,
elicit,
enkindle,
kindle,
fire,
raise,
provoke]
2: call forth;
“Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the
couple” [syn:
provoke,
call forth,
kick up]
3: deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning);
“We drew out
some interesting linguistic data from the native
informant” [syn:
educe,
elicit,
extract,
draw out]
4: evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic;
“raise the
specter of unemployment”;
“he conjured wild birds in the
air”;
“stir a disturbance”;
“call down the spirits from
the mountain” [syn:
raise,
conjure,
conjure up,
invoke,
stir,
call down,
arouse,
bring up,
put forward,
call forth]
5: call to mind or evoke [syn:
suggest,
paint a picture]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Evoke
Evoke
\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 ['e]voquer. See
Voice, and cf.
Evocate.]
1. To call out; to summon forth.
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To evoke the queen of the fairies. --T. Warton.
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A regulating discipline of exercise, that whilst
evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to
be wasted. --De Quincey.
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2. To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another. [R.]
“The cause was evoked to Rome.” --Hume.