Hypertext Webster Gateway: "evocation"
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) 1.7 (wn)
evocation
n 1: imaginative re-creation
2: calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and
incantations [syn: {summoning}]
3: stimulation that calls up (evokes or induces or elicits) a
particular class of behaviors [syn: {induction}, {elicitation}]
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