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Definition of Invocate
1. v. t. To invoke; to call on, or for, in supplication; to implore.
Definition of Invocate
1. Verb. To invoke or implore ¹
2. Verb. To summon or conjure up ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Invocate
1. to invoke [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES] - See also: invoke
Lexicographical Neighbors of Invocate
Literary usage of Invocate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"50 invocate, to invoke. (L.) In Shak. Rich. Ill, i. 2. 8. .... Doublet, invocate,
qv INVOLUNTARY, not voluntary. (L.) In Pope, Irait, of Horace, Odes, iv. ..."
2. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by William Carew Hazlitt, Robert Dodsley (1874)
"Apollo's masterdom 1 I invocate, To whom henceforth my deeds I dedicate; That of
his godhead, 'bove all gods divine, With his rich spirit he would lighten ..."
3. Five Old Plays: Forming a Supplement to the Collections of Dodsley and Others by Thomas Hughes, Anthony Munday, Henry Chettle, Nathan Field, Robert Dodsley, John Payne Collier (1833)
"... I invocate, To whom henceforth my deeds I dedicate; That of his godhead, 'bove
all gods divine, With his rich spirit he would lighten mine : That I may ..."
4. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"But in the invocation of God the Father, we invocate every person, because we
invocate the Father as God, every person being so. Thirdly, In that heavenly ..."
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