invocate

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Scrabble points
13
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16
Letters
8

Definition of invocate

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (rare)To implore or invoke.
    “Be thou the tenth Muſe, ten times more in worth / Then thoſe old nine which rimers inuocate, […]”
    “[B]oth the muſes and the graces are his hard Miſtriſſes, though he daily Invocate them, though he ſacrifize Hecatombs, they ſtil look a ſquint, […]”
    “For proof hereof, if Dagon be thy god, / Go to his Temple, invocate his aid”
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verb

  1. (rare)To implore or invoke.
    “Be thou the tenth Muſe, ten times more in worth / Then thoſe old nine which rimers inuocate, […]”
    “[B]oth the muſes and the graces are his hard Miſtriſſes, though he daily Invocate them, though he ſacrifize Hecatombs, they ſtil look a ſquint, […]”
    “For proof hereof, if Dagon be thy god, / Go to his Temple, invocate his aid”
  2. (rare)To conjure up or summon.
    “Poore key-cold Figure of a holy King, Pale Aſhes of the Houſe of Lancaſter; Thou bloodleſſe Remnant of that Royall Blood, Be it lawfull that I inuocate thy Ghoſt, To heare the Lamentations of poore Anne, Wife to thy Edward, to thy ſlaugthered Sonne, Stab'd by the ſelfeſame hand that made theſe wounds.”

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Etymology

First attested in 1530; borrowed from Latin invocātus, perfect passive participle of invocō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of invoke.

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