Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IN'VO-CATE
IN-VIT'RI-FI-A-BLEIN'VO-CA-TED
IN'VO-CATE, v.t. [L. invoco; in and voco, to call.]
To invoke; to call on in supplication; to implore; to address in prayer. If Dagon be thy god, / Go to his temple, invocate his aid. – Milton. [Instead of this word, invoke is generally used.]
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