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.

To evoke the queen of the fairies. --T. Warton.

A requlating discipline of exercise, that whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. --De Quincey.

2. To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another. [R.]

``The cause was evoked to Rome.'' --Hume.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)