Definition for EV-O-CA'TION

EV-O-CA'TION, n.

  1. A calling or bringing from concealment; a calling forth. Brown
  2. A calling from one tribunal to another. Among the Romans, a calling on the gods of a besieged city to forsake it and come over to the besiegers; a religious ceremony of besieging armies. Encyc.

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