v. [f. L. ēvocāt- ppl. stem of ēvocāre: see EVOKE.]

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  † 1.  trans. To call forth. Obs. in gen. sense.

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1638.  Bp. Reynolds, Lord’s Supper, xviii. 176. The seed to bee scattered,… the Sunne to evocate and excite the seminall vertue.

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1665.  G. Harvey, Advice agst. Plague, 6. The said Arsenical bodies … require … a very dry and warm … air, to melt and open the surface of the Earth … to attract and evocate them thence. [Misquoted by Johnson s.v. Evacate.]

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  2.  To call up (spirits) from the dead, (events) from past times.

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1675.  J. Smith, Chr. Relig. Appeal, II. 10. Thyestes his Ghost groans … when that is evocated to attend the pleasure of the black Artist.

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1732.  Stackhouse, Hist. Bible, V. III. iii. [Saul] thinking there was any efficacy in magical operations to evocate the dead.

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1817.  Byron, Let. Murray, 15 Feb., in Wks. (1846), 175/2. He … goes … to evocate a ghost.

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1822.  T. Taylor, Apuleius, 277. The ancient Egyptians evocated the souls of demons, or angels, and inserted them in sacred images.

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1827.  Sir H. Taylor, Isaac Comnenus, I. iv. 46. Where memory evocates imperial deeds, Such as betray’d Britannicus of old.

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1851.  G. S. Faber, Many Mansions (1854), 356, note. Here Ulysses evocates the souls of the dead.

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  3.  nonce-use. To call out (from a house, etc.).

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1834.  Beckford, Italy, II. 228. Driving to the palace, [I] evocated the archbishop confessor.

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  Hence Evocated ppl. a.

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1816.  G. S. Faber, Orig. Pagan Idol., III. 350. The evocated spirits come up.

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