Evocation

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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 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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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 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.