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Meaning invoke meaning

What does invoke mean?
Definitions in simple English

invoke Verb

— When someone invokes a rule, they use the rule in a specific situation. For the government to do that legally, they would have to invoke the "notwithstanding" clause of the constitution.

invoke

— verb (= raise, conjure, call down) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic raise the specter of unemployment he conjured wild birds in the air call down the spirits from the mountain — verb (= appeal) cite as an authority; resort to He invoked the law that would save him I appealed to the law of 1900 She invoked an ancient law — verb (= appeal) request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection appeal to somebody for help Invoke God in times of trouble

Synonyms invoke synonyms

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invoke English » English

call appeal evoke summon conjure call upon stir raise invite appeal to shall provoke praise conjure up cause arouse worship put forward praise highly petition name implore create call out call forth call down bring up beg wish waken wake utter a sound turn touch lightly toasts supplicate suggest stir up solicit send for raise the spirits of the dead raise a spirit put into operation pray plead on offer up offer may kindle

Topics invoke topics

What do people use invoke to talk about?
Social behavior Religion Miracle, supernatural power

Sorcery
Social behavior Religion Miracle, supernatural power

Bless
Social behavior Law Trial

Take oath

Conjugation invoke conjugation

How do you conjugate invoke?

invoke · verb

Examples invoke examples

How do I use invoke in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Once Tom tried to invoke a demon, and he almost succeeded.

Movie subtitles

Invoke his warlike spirit, and your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince.
It is much too sad for us to invoke these ancient memories.
We invoke love, call it beg for it, cry for it, try to mimic it. We think that we own it, we lie about it.
Invoke the 24-hour rule. Anything.
Will thee risk that. or stand with me and invoke the law?
I alone can invoke the power of the genie.
Now tell me the words that invoke your protective power.
Dr. Masali, do not invoke me again.
And if industry is so hell bent to invoke Taft-Hartley any support they get from me will have to get flogged out.
Why did you not invoke our laws?
A lunatic who comes from the city to invoke the souls of the dead of a former leper colony.
Called from Beyond! Know that I invoke you!
I invoke the special Galactic Law against them!
I invoke the special Galactic law against them!
Through sacrificing petition pennants they invoke divine protection against upcoming dangers on their journey.
If you want to try an fool me, fine. but don't swear or invoke your word of honor.
If not, we are determined to invoke the privilege of nobles of this colony. by His Most Catholic Majesty, Charles V. to depose his viceroy of the New Indies and constitute a provisional government.
We invoke love, call it beg for it, cry for it, try to mimic it.
We invoke the protection of God on this marriage. Your joy is mine.
I want to go. It's not advisable to invoke our mysterious inner forces. without proper preparation.
As I've already told Mr. Lurry, the purpose of my presence here is to invoke shore-leave rights.
Don't invoke the Almighty.
I just might have to invoke the rule of primal juncture.
Eva, we'll invoke the baron again tonight.
The people who unknowingly dared to invoke the secret laws of magic are asking for your help.
We'll invoke the right of command and place the military under President Boon.
I'll invoke his spirit.
I invoke thee, I do not fear thee.
If I've understood correctly, you intend to invoke Sheila Marlow?
We invoke you.
Let us invoke our Lord. May he be our witness and grant his merciful grace.
May the Lord deliver us and never allow us to invoke his enemy's name.
We'd never invoke him.
I will invoke a community vote.

News and current affairs

So, how seriously must we take the ideological reasons that killers like Breivik and the September 11 terrorists invoke to justify their murders?
And by no means do all those who work to protect the rights of others invoke the horrors of the Third Reich to justify Anglo-American armed intervention.
After all, not only moral outrage but calculated self-interest led them on September 12 th to invoke, for the first time, Article V of the NATO Treaty.
As politicians in the West compare him to Mugabe or Mussolini, Putin's Kremlin aides invoke the Munich appeasers who tried to push Hitler eastward.
One immediate consequence would be to abandon the US attempt to prosecute Saddam Hussein on its own and to invoke an international tribunal.
Of course, other NATO members could disagree that Syria has in fact attacked Turkey, but if Turkey were to invoke Article 5, a refusal to offer assistance could have unpleasant consequences for the alliance as a whole.
What is most striking is the rationale people invoke for supporting Serbia.
The better way to make sense of self-defense is to invoke two principles that underlie legal claims of justification in both domestic and international law.
When economists don't know how to explain something, they often invoke the irrationality of markets.
Precautionary policymakers invoke scientific uncertainty to curb technological innovation, whereas their proactionary counterparts encourage innovation as an extension of scientific hypothesis testing.
After all, to call something evil is to invoke a moral duty to destroy it.
To explain what is wrong with the new Bush doctrine, I have to invoke the concept of open society.
So we must not be tricked by the fact that those who gained economic power by looting state assets now employ lawyers, invoke free market nostrums, and claim to follow the letter of the law.
A deterrent that is too dangerous to invoke would lack credibility.
As a result, the willingness of WTO members to invoke the Dispute Settlement Mechanism, the pride of the WTO - and, indeed, of international governance - would also be sapped.
To invoke Voltaire is one thing, I thought at the time, but to act responsibly may presuppose refraining from insulting what is most sacred to others, whether it be Christ, Muhammad, or the Shoah.
We declare, as if there can be no doubt, that friction impedes the motion between two bodies, and we invoke sophisticated microscopic models that show how the soles of running shoes bind to a track.
Still, language of such breadth could accommodate virtually any action sympathetic to a foreign power, yet Americans are reluctant to invoke their catch-all criminal charge.
Such arguments often invoke Milton Friedman, who warned in 1998 that Europe's commitment to the euro would be tested by the first serious economic downturn.

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