invocate

Example Sentences

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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

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

Some call on heaven, some invocate on hell, And Fates and Furies, with their woes acquaint.

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Crow, Martha Foote

No considerable work was ever composed till its author, like an ancient magician, first retired to the grove, or to the closet, to invocate.

From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Disraeli, Isaac

Celestial powers on you I invocate; You know the chaste affections of my mind, I never did my faith yet violate; Why should my Chloris then be so unkind?

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Crow, Martha Foote