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evocation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun evocation has 3 senses
- evocation(n = noun.cognition) Array - imaginative re-creation; Array is a kind of imagery, imagination, imaging, mental imagery
- evocation(n = noun.cognition) summoning - calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations; Array is a kind of conjuration, conjuring, conjury, invocation
- evocation(n = noun.cognition) elicitation, induction - stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors; "the elicitation of his testimony was not easy" is a kind of input, stimulant, stimulation, stimulus
Derived form verb evoke5
is a part of dispossession, exorcism
Derived form verb evoke4
Derived forms verb evoke2, verb evoke1
CIDE DICTIONARY
evocation, n. [L. evocatio: cf. F. évocation.].
The act of calling out or forth. Sir. T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
"The evocation of that better spirit."
[1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
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
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