invocate

English

Etymology

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

Verb

1. To invoke or implore
   • 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,

   • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] 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 summon or conjure up

Related terms

• invocation

Anagrams

• Caviteño, conative

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Italian

Verb

invocate

1. second-person plural present indicative of invocare
2. second-person plural imperative of invocare
3. feminine plural of invocato

Anagrams

• conative, nevicato, vociante

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) invocāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of invocō