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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
evoke /ɪˈvəʊk/
verb
  • 1 bring or recall to the conscious mind.
  • 2 elicit (a response).
  • 3 invoke (a spirit or deity).
– derivatives
evocation noun,
evoker noun.
– origin C17 (earlier (ME) as evocation): from L. evocat-, evocare, from e- (var. of ex-) ‘out of, from’ + vocare ‘to call’.



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