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Definition of Evoke
Evoke

To call out; to summon forth.

To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another.

Related Definitions:
Another, Away, Call, Forth, From, One, Out, Remove, Summon, To, Tribunal


Evoke Quotations

When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later.
Donald Rumsfeld

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.
Robert Morgan

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
James Connolly

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.
Giacomo Casanova

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.
Rene Magritte

Evoke Translations

evoke in Dutch is naar buiten roepen
evoke in German is hervorrufen, ausrufen
evoke in Norwegian is fremkalle
evoke in Spanish is suscitar


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