invocate

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Celestial powers on you I invocate; You know the chaste affections of my mind, I never did my faith yet violate; Why should my Chloris then be so unkind?

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Crow, Martha Foote

No considerable work has yet been composed, but its author, like an ancient magician, retired first to the grove or the closet, to invocate his spirits.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac

Henry the Fifth, thy ghost I invocate: Prosper this realm, keep it from civil broils, Combat with adverse planets in the heavens!

From King Henry VI, Part 1 by Shakespeare, William

But the Muses and the Graces are his hard mistresses; though he daily invocate them, though he sacrifice hecatombs, they still look asquint.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

Masterdom means power, rule; to invocate Apollo's masterdom is therefore to invocate Apollo's power to assist the Friar in his undertaking.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew