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v. To call on (a higher power) for assistance, support, or inspiration: "Stretching out her hands she had the air of a Greek woman who invoked a deity” ( Ford Madox Ford).

v. To appeal to or cite in support or justification.

v. To call for earnestly; solicit: invoked the help of a passing motorist.

v. To summon with incantations; conjure.

v. To resort to; use or apply: "Shamelessly, he invokes coincidence to achieve ironic effect” ( Newsweek).

v. Computer Science To activate or start (a program, for example).

v. To call upon (a person, especially a god) for help, assistance or guidance.

v. To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority.

v. To conjure up with incantations.

v. To bring about as an inevitable consequence.

v. To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude.

v. To cause (a program or subroutine) to execute.

v. To call on for aid or protection; to invite earnestly or solemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand by invocation; to implore.

To address in supplication; call on for protection or aid: as, to invoke the Supreme Being; to invoke the Muses.

To call for with earnest desire; make supplication or prayer for: as, to invoke God's mercy.

In law, to call for judicially: as, to invoke depositions or evidence.

v. request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection

v. summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

v. cite as an authority; resort to

"We are experiencing writing, which, through the psychological processes Carnap and Dewey invoke, is "transformed" into a world of characters and their stories."

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