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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Evocation \Ev`o*ca"tion\, n. [L. evocatio: cf. F. ['e]vocation.]
     The act of calling out or forth. --Sir. T. Browne.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The evocation of that better spirit.     --M. Arnold.
     [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Evocation \Ev`o*ca"tion\, n. [L. evocatio: cf. F. ['e]vocation.]
     The act of calling out or forth. --Sir. T. Browne.
  
           The evocation of that better spirit.     --M. Arnold.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]


  evocation
       n 1: imaginative re-creation
       2: calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and
          incantations [syn: summoning]
       3: stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class
          of behaviors; "the elicitation of his testimony was not
          easy" [syn: induction, elicitation]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  evocation
     Αγγλικά n.
     1 ανάκληση, ανάκληση μνήμης χωροταξικής, αφηγητικής, αισθητηριακής
  κτλ.
     2 (''μεταφυσικός'') θεία, πνευματιστική και ευρύτερα μεταφυσική
  επίκληση

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  evocation
     n.
     The act of calling out or forth, or evoke.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  evocation
     n.
     The act of calling out or forth, or evoke.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  evocation
     n.
     The act of calling out or forth, or evoke.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  evocation
     n.
     The act of calling out or forth, or evoke.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  evocation
     Englanti n.
     esille tai esiin tuominen, esiin manaaminen

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]


  Evocation /ɪvəkˈeɪʃən/
  البعث

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]


  evocation /ɪvəkˈeɪʃən/
  evokace

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]


  evocation /ɪvəkˈeɪʃən/ 
  vyvolání

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]


  evocation /ɪvəkˈeɪʃən/
  Heraufbeschwören , Evokation

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]


  evocation /ɪvəkˈeɪʃən/
  Hervorrufen

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-fin ]


  evocation /ɪvəkˈeɪʃən/ 
  herättäminen, kutsuminen, mielleyhtymä
  act of calling out

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 : [ freedict:eng-pol ]


  evocation /ˌi:vəˈkeɪʃən/ 
    ewokacja, przywołąnie

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-swe ]


  evocation /ɪvəkˈeɪʃən/ 
  frambesvärjande, framkallande, frammanande
  act of calling out

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-tur ]


  evocation /ɪvəkˈeɪʃən/
  1. zihinde uyandırma, aklına getirme
  2. (huk.) davanın daha yüksek bir mahkemeye ref' ve devri.

From IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]

/ˌivoʊˈkeɪʃən/

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) : [ bouvier ]


  EVOCATION, French law. The act by which a judge is deprived of the 
  cognizance of a suit over which he had jurisdiction, for the purpose of 
  conferring on other judges the power of deciding it. This is done with us by 
  writ of certiorari.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]


  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "evocation":
     arousal, beck, beck and call, bidding, bringing out, call, calling,
     calling forth, cameo, catalog, cataloging, character,
     character sketch, characterization, conjuration, conjurement,
     convocation, delineation, depiction, description, details,
     drawing out, eduction, exorcisation, exorcism, exsufflation,
     graphic account, image, imagery, impression, incantation, indent,
     invocation, itemization, limning, nod, particularization,
     photograph, picture, portrait, portraiture, portrayal,
     preconization, profile, rendering, rendition, representation,
     requisition, sketch, specification, summons, vignette,
     vivid description, word painting

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]


  n. 唤出,招魂,唤起;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]


     n. 唤出,招魂,唤起

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