invoke
/ɪnˈvoʊk/ verb B2- To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance.
- To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude. · The envoy invoked the King of Kings's magnanimity to reduce his province's tribute after another drought.
- To call another ship.
- To call to mind (something) for some purpose.
- To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority.
- To conjure up with incantations. · This satanist ritual invokes Beelzebub.
- To bring about as an inevitable consequence. · Blasphemy is taboo as it may invoke divine wrath.
- To cause (a program or subroutine) to execute. · Interactive programs let the users enter choices and invoke the corresponding routines.
He/she/it invokes · Past invoked · Past participle invoked · -ing form invoking
Verb forms
- Base form
- invoke
- He/she/it
- invokes
- Past
- invoked
- Past participle
- invoked
- -ing form
- invoking
From the library
I mean to teach them in these parts that law is law, and that there is a man here who does not fear to invoke it.
This was the second time within the hour that he had invoked the name of God.
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