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evoked |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Evoke \E*voke"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Evoked}; p. pr & vb n. {Evoking}.] [L. evocare; e out + vocare to call fr vox, vocis, voice: cf F ['e]voquer. See {Voice}, and cf {Evocate}.] 1. To call out to summon forth. To evoke the queen of the fairies. --T. Warton. A requlating discipline of exercise, that whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. --De Quincey. 2. To call away to remove from one tribunal to another. [R.] ``The cause was evoked to Rome.'' --Hume. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: evoked adj : called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation; "evoked potentials"; "an elicited response" [syn: {elicited}]
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