a. [ad. L. ēvocātīv-us, f. ēvocāre: see EVOCATE.] Tending to call or draw forth. Const. of.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 160. Gargarismes … whose faculty … is either levative, or repressive, or evocative.
1855. Bailey, Mystic, 61. At his will-fraught and evocative word, The strange star brightened largelier.
1881. A. Cave, in Brit. Q. Rev., Jan., 25/1 The soul of good in things evil which has proved … so evocative of some of the least natural graces, so productive of spiritual energy.
