All 9 Uses
invoke
in
The Odyssey - translated by: Fitzgerald
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- Peisistratos in the lead, the young prince, caught up their hands in his and gave them places on curly lambskins flat on the sea sand near Thrasymedes, his brother, and his father; he passed them bits of the food of sacrifice, and, pouring wine in a golden cup, he said to Pallas Athena, daughter of Zeus: "Friend, I must ask you to invoke Poseidon: you find us at this feast, kept in his honor.†
Chpt 3invoke = call upon
- For by his side one goes whom all men else invoke as their defender, one so powerful —Pallas Athena; in thy tears she pitied thee and now hath sent me that I so assure thee.
Chpt 4
- But there and all my days until I die may I invoke you as I would a goddess, princess, to whom I owe my life.†
Chpt 8
- No, no, put all your backs into it, row on; invoke Blind Force, that bore this scourge of men, to keep her from a second strike against you.†
Chpt 12
- Whereon Alkinoos gave command to his crier: "Fill the winebowl, Pontonoos: mix and serve: go the whole round, so may this company invoke our Father Zeus, and bless our friend, seaborne tonight and bound for his own country."†
Chpt 13
- In far-off Ithaka, all my life, I shall invoke you as a goddess, lady.†
Chpt 15
- Then Eumaios echoed him, and invoked the gods, and prayed that his great-minded master should return.
Chpt 20 *invoked = called upon
- She said: "Arkeisiades, dearest of all my old brothers-in-arms, invoke the grey-eyed one and Zeus her father, heft your spear and make your throw."†
Chpt 24invoke = call upon
- Power flowed into him from Pallas Athena, whom he invoked as Zeus's virgin child, and he let fly his heavy spear.†
Chpt 24invoked = called upon
Definitions:
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(1)
(invoke) to call uponThe 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
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)