invocate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin invocare; invocatus, past participle of invocare. See invoke.

Verb

invocate (third-person singular simple present invocates, present participle invocating, simple past and past participle invocated)

1. To implore or invoke.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 38”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […]‎^[1], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     Be thou the tenth Muſe, ten times more in worth / Then thoſe old nine which rimers inuocate, […]

   • a. 1632 (date written), John Donne, “[Characters.] The True Character of a Dunce.”, in Paradoxes, Problemes, Essayes, Characters, […], London: […] T. N. for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1652, →OCLC, page 68:

     [B]oth the muſes and the graces are his hard Miſtriſſes, though he daily Invocate them, though he ſacrifize Hecatombs, they ſtil look a ſquint, […]

   • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 69:

     For proof hereof, if Dagon be thy god, / Go to his Temple, invocate his aid

2. To conjure up or summon.

Related terms

• invocation

Anagrams

• Caviteño, conative

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

invocate

1. inflection of invocare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

invocate f pl

1. feminine plural of invocato

Anagrams

• conative, nevicato, vociante

Latin

Verb

invocāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of invocō

Spanish

Verb

invocate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of invocar combined with te