invocate
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin invocare; invocatus, past participle of invocare. See invoke.
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invocate (third-person singular simple present invocates, present participle invocating, simple past and past participle invocated)
- 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. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 69:
- For proof hereof, if Dagon be thy god,
Go to his Temple, invocate his aid
- To summon or conjure up
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invocate
- inflection of invocare:
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invocate f pl
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invocāte
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invocate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of invocar combined with te