Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for EV-O-CA'TION
EV'O-CATE, or EVOKEEV'O-CA-TOR
EV-O-CA'TION, n.
- A calling or bringing from concealment; a calling forth. Brown
- 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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