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Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth Than those old nine which rhymers invocate; And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth Eternal numbers to outlive long date.

From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir

Do not invocate the name of anything, I pray you.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

Thou, Cæsar, at this instant art my god; Thee if I invocate, I shall not need To crave Apollo's aid or Bacchus' help; Thy power inspires the Muse that sings this war.

From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

But the Muses and the Graces are his hard mistresses; though he daily invocate them, though he sacrifice hecatombs, they still look asquint.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

Masterdom means power, rule; to invocate Apollo's masterdom is therefore to invocate Apollo's power to assist the Friar in his undertaking.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew

Jephthah was fetched from the land of Tob, and made the head of the Gileadites by an explicit mutual stipulation, wherein the Lord was invocated as a witness, Judg. xi.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander

They believed in the powers of philtres and spells, and invocated spirits; and they relished a blood-curdling ghost story at Christmas quite as much as their twentieth-century descendants.

From Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by Dawson, William Francis

Argumts to prove either must be as 1 if they can pve ye pty hath invocated ye devill for his help this pt of yt ye devill binds withes to.

From The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) by Taylor, John M. (John Metcalf)

A president may not be raised at any hour of the day, except the king, whom he obeyeth, be invocated; nor at the shutting in of the evening.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 325, August 2, 1828 by Various

"The saints reigning together with Christ are to be honored and invocated; … they offer prayers to God for us… their relics are to be venerated."—Creed of Pope Pius IV.

From Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America by Ray, G. Whitfield

But upon his invocating the Lord Jesus, they failed in their attempt.

From The Purgatory of St. Patrick by MacCarthy, Denis Florence

Perhaps it was gathered during the invocating influence of the following charm, which may be found in the 12th book, chap.

From Thaumaturgia by Oxonian, An

Yet we are told they remained in their dungeons “with much joy and great comfort, in continual reading and invocating the name of God, ever looking and expecting the happy day of their dissolution.”

From The King's Daughters by Holt, Emily Sarah

She was a pretty, invocating, weak-mouthed girl, whose chief defect as a companion with her sex was a tendency to peevishness now and then. 

From Life's Little Ironies by Hardy, Thomas

"Grace!" said Fitzpiers, in an indescribable whisper—more than invocating, if not quite deprecatory.

From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas