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To call out; to summon forth.

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  1. v. t. To call out; to summon forth.
  2. v. t. To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another.
  3. v. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
  4. v. evoke or provoke to appear or occur
  5. v. deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
  6. v. summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
  7. v. call to mind
  8. 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.
  9. Apt to fly away. [Obs. or R.] Blount.
  10. v:100 v call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) v evoke or provoke to appear or occur v deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) v summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic v call to mind