Both Uses
invoke
in
A Grace Given in Sorrow, translated by Fitzgerald
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- It is an excellent thing and salutary to lift our hands to Zeus, invoking mercy.
*invoking = calling upon
- Go take his knees, and make your supplication: invoke his father, his mother, and his child; pray that his heart be touched, that he be reconciled.†
invoke = call 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)