evoke : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: evoke	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for evoke
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
evoke v call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" Synonym(s): arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke evoke or provoke to appear or occur; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple" Synonym(s): provoke, evoke, call forth, kick up deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant" Synonym(s): educe, evoke, elicit, extract, draw out summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain" Synonym(s): raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth call to mind; "this remark evoked sadness" Synonym(s): suggest, evoke, paint a picture
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Evoke \Evoke"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Evoked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Evoking}.] [L. evocare; e out + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice: cf. F [82]voquer. 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.] [bd]The cause was evoked to Rome.[b8] --Hume.