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English Dictionary: evoked by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
evoked
adj
  1. called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation; "evoked potentials"; "an elicited response"
    Synonym(s): elicited, evoked
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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 [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.
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