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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 William Shakespeare

Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth Than those old nine which rhymers invocate; And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth Eternal numbers to outlive long date.

From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Sir Sidney Lee

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 Martha Foote Crow

Some call on heaven, some invocate on hell, And Fates and Furies, with their woes acquaint.

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

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 William Carew Hazlitt

"The saints reigning together with Christ are to be honored and invocated; … they offer prayers to God for us… their relics are to be venerated."—Creed of Pope Pius IV.

From Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America by G. Whitfield Ray

The nine here so classically invocated are manifestly nine of the members of the late club, consisting of, 1.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841 by Various

Jephthah was fetched from the land of Tob, and made the head of the Gileadites by an explicit mutual stipulation, wherein the Lord was invocated as a witness, Judg. xi.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

Greek and Roman magicians invocated spirits by prayers to the moon, and sacrifices of milk, honey, and blood.

From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James Grant

Argumts to prove either must be as 1 if they can pve ye pty hath invocated ye devill for his help this pt of yt ye devill binds withes to.

From The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) by John M. (John Metcalf) Taylor

Perhaps it was gathered during the invocating influence of the following charm, which may be found in the 12th book, chap.

From Thaumaturgia by An Oxonian

"Grace!" said Fitzpiers, in an indescribable whisper—more than invocating, if not quite deprecatory.

From The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy

She was a pretty, invocating, weak-mouthed girl, whose chief defect as a companion with her sex was a tendency to peevishness now and then. 

From Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy

Yet we are told they remained in their dungeons “with much joy and great comfort, in continual reading and invocating the name of God, ever looking and expecting the happy day of their dissolution.”

From The King's Daughters by Emily Sarah Holt

But upon his invocating the Lord Jesus, they failed in their attempt.

From The Purgatory of St. Patrick by Denis Florence MacCarthy