Invocate vs Invoke - What's the difference?
invocate | invoke |
To invoke or implore
To summon or conjure up
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To call upon (a person, especially a god) for help, assistance or guidance.
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To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority.
To conjure up with incantations.
To bring about as an inevitable consequence.
To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude.
(computing) To cause (a program or subroutine) to execute.
* C++ lets you invoke an operator function either by calling the function or by using the overloaded operator with its usual syntax. — Stephen Prata.
Invoke is a synonym of invocate.
As verbs the difference between invocate and invoke
is that invocate is to invoke or implore while invoke is to call upon (a person, especially a god) for help, assistance or guidance.invocate
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Verb
(invocat)- If Dagon be thy god, Go to his temple, invocate his aid. — Milton.
invoke
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Alternative forms
* envokeVerb
(invok)- In certain Christian circles invoking the Bible constitutes irrefutable proof.
- This satanist ritual invokes Beelzebub.
- Blasphemy is taboo as it may invoke divine wrath.
- The envoy invoked the King of Kings's magnanimity to reduce his province's tribute after another draught.
- Interactive programs let the users enter choices and invoke the corresponding routines.
