Evoked

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Evoke \E*voke"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Evoked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Evoking}.] [L. evocare; e out + vocare to call, fr. vox,
     vocis, voice: cf. F ['e]voquer. See {Voice}, and cf.
     {Evocate}.]
     1. To call out; to summon forth.
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              To evoke the queen of the fairies.    --T. Warton.
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              A regulating discipline of exercise, that whilst
              evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to
              be wasted.                            --De Quincey.
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     2. To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another. [R.]
        "The cause was evoked to Rome." --Hume. Evolatic

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  evoked
       adj : called forth from a latent or potential state by
             stimulation; "evoked potentials"; "an elicited
             response" [syn: {elicited}]