the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The act of calling out or forth.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A calling or bringing from concealment; a calling forth: as, among the ancient Romans, the evocation of the gods of a besieged city to join the besiegers.
n. In civil law, the removal of a suit from an inferior to a superior tribunal.
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n. calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations
n. stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors
n. imaginative re-creation
Word Usage
"Nothing Geoff Dyer has written before is as wonderfully unbridled, as dead-on in evocation of place, longing, and the possibility of neurotic enlightenment, as irrepressibly entertaining as Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi."