INVOKE in LEAVES OF GRASS - verbalworkout.com

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Definition

to call upon

The exact meaning of invoke can depend upon its context. For example:

"invoking God's help"; or "invoking the spirit of the dead" — to call upon a great or magical power
"I invoke the First Amendment"; or "I invoke the words of Thomas Jefferson" — to cite or call upon for validation
"She invoked his sympathy and family memories." — to call upon someone's feelings or memories
"She invoked his assistance." — to call earnestly for
"The program invokes the subroutine" — to call up a computer program

Not for the bards of the past, not to invoke them have I launch'd you forth, Not to call even those lofty bards here by Ontario's shores, Have I sung so capricious and loud my savage song.
Book 23 — By Blue Ontario's Shore.... (96% in)
Bards for my own land only I invoke, (For the war the war is over, the field is clear'd,) Till they strike up marches henceforth triumphant and onward, To cheer O Mother your boundless expectant soul.
Book 23 — By Blue Ontario's Shore.... (96% in)
...happiness nor wealth, And yet the pulse of every heart and life throughout the world incessantly, Which you and I and all pursuing ever ever miss, Open but still a secret, the real of the real, an illusion, Costless, vouchsafed to each, yet never man the owner, Which poets vainly seek to put in rhyme, historians in prose, Which sculptor never chisel'd yet, nor painter painted, Which vocalist never sung, nor orator nor actor ever utter'd, Invoking here and now I challenge for my song.
Book 32 — FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT (60% in)

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