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evocation

a calling forth: an evocation of earlier times

Not to be confused with:

avocation – a hobby in addition to a principal occupation: The judge’s avocation is acting in little theater productions.; a person’s regular occupation or calling

ev·o·ca·tion

(ĕv′ə-kā′shən, ē′və-)

1. The act of evoking.

2. Creation anew through the power of the memory or imagination.

ev′o·ca′tor n.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

evocation

(ˌɛvəˈkeɪʃən)

1. the act or an instance of evoking

2. (Law) French law the transference of a case from an inferior court for adjudication by a higher tribunal

3. (Biology) another word for induction⁶

[C17: from Latin ēvocātiō a calling forth, from ēvocāre to evoke]

evocable adj

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

ev•o•ca•tion

(ˌɛv əˈkeɪ ʃən, ˌi voʊˈkeɪ-)

n.

an act or instance of evoking; a calling forth: the evocation of old memories.

[1400–50; late Middle English < Latin]

ev′o•ca`tor, n.

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Noun	1.	evocation - imaginative re-creation imagery, imaging, mental imagery, imagination - the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination"
	2.	evocation - calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations summoning conjuring, conjury, conjuration, invocation - calling up a spirit or devil exorcism, dispossession - freeing from evil spirits
	3.	evocation - stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors; "the elicitation of his testimony was not easy" elicitation, induction stimulant, stimulus, stimulation, input - any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action

Translations

إسْتِحْضار، إثارَه، إسْتِثارَه

gengivelselevendegørelse

Hervorrufen

évocation

felidézés

vakning, framköllun

frammaning levendegjøring

evokácia

hayalinde canlandırma

唤引起

evocation

[ˌevəˈkeɪʃən] N → evocación f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

evocation

[ˌiːvəʊˈkeɪʃ^ən ˈɛvəʊˈkeɪʃ^ən] n (= depiction) → évocation f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

evocation

n → Heraufbeschwören nt, → Wachrufen nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

evocation

[ˌɛvəˈkeɪʃ/ən] n → evocazione f

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

evoke

(iˈvəuk) verb

1. to cause or produce (especially a response, reaction etc). His letter in the newspaper evoked a storm of protest.

2. to bring into the mind. A piece of music can sometimes evoke (memories of) the past.

ˌevoˈcation (evəˈkeiʃn) , (ivouʃkeiʃn) noun

evocative (iˈvokətiv) adjective

tending to evoke memories etc.

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I seemed at any rate, for an instant, to see their evocation of her as distinctly as I had seen her by the pond; and I brought out with decision: "It must have been also what SHE wished!"

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Of course in this great house you must have a second kitchen, and my servant, who is a wonderfully handy fellow" (this personage was an evocation of the moment), "can easily cook me a chop there.

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"You wanted to make the supper-table pretty; and you waited till my back was turned, and took the thing I set most store by of anything I've got, and wouldn't never use it, not even when the minister come to dinner, or Aunt Martha Pierce come over from Bettsbridge-" Zeena paused with a gasp, as if terrified by her own evocation of the sacrilege.

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Lauter's work is clearly imbued with historical self-consciousness--the press release rightly cites "Redon, Vuillard, Bonnard, as well as other members of the Nabis and Post-Impressionists" among the Los Angeles-based artist's precursors, to which list I would add Blaue Reiter-period Kandinsky and maybe a few more recent explorers of the cusp between evocation and abstraction, among them Howard Hodgkin and Thomas Nozkowski.

Mimi Lauter: DEREK ELLER GALLERY

Le dirigeant palestinien Mahmoud Abbas a prevenu hier jeudi qu'il tenait pour un "engagement" du President americain Barack Obama son evocation a la tribune des Nations unies...

Abbas prend au mot Obama sur une Palestine membre de l'ONU d'ici un an

Brenda Chamberlain's contemplative account of her life among the peasants on the Greek island of Ydra in the early 1960s is a gorgeous evocation that holds you from the first startling sentence, as Shani Rhys-James points out in a foreword that is resonant with admiration.

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However, it considered that the use of the term Parmesan' constitutes an evocation of the PDO Parmigiano Reggiano'.

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS : ECJ RULING PROTECTS PARMESAN

a "safer place to live," despite their obvious xenophobia and the evocation of the Spanish word for cockroach.

Maybe they forgot that 15 percent of New Jersey is Latino

Both male and female YAs will be able to relate to it, and the tale's brevity and evocation of strong emotions will give it appeal to reluctant readers as well.

Myers, Walter Dean. Street love

A primary source work of occult manuscripts, illustrated with black- and-white charts and diagrams, A Treatise on Angel Magic includes the hierarchies of fallen angels, evocation of the Nature Spirits, and John Dee's Enochian system of Angel conjuration.

A Treatise on Angel Magic

A wistful evocation of the many facets of Alaska's soul.

Bone Strings

4), the evocation of sounds by Franz Liszt (Cloches du soir) and the innovative concepts of harmony and timbre developed by Edvard Grieg (Klokkenklang).

Anthology of Impressionistic Piano Music--Intermediate- to Early-Advanced Works by Twenty Composers

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