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ev⋅o⋅ca⋅tion

  [ev-uh-key-shuhn, ee-voh-key-]
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–noun
1. an act or instance of evoking; a calling forth: the evocation of old memories.
2. Law. (formerly) an action of a court in summoning a case from another, usually lower, court for purposes of complete review and decision, as on an appeal in which the issue is incidental or procedural and the court of first instance has not yet rendered a decision on its merits; the removal of a case from one court to another.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME evocacioun < L ēvocātiōn- (s. of ēvocātiō) calling forth, out, equiv. to ēvocāt(us) (ptp. of ēvocāre to evoke ) + -iōn- -ion
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ev·o·ca·tion   (ěv'ə-kā'shən, ē'və-)   
n.  

  1. The act of evoking.

  2. Creation anew through the power of the memory or imagination.

ev'o·ca'tor n.
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Word Origin & History

evocation 
1574, from L. evocationem (nom. evocatio), from evocare "call out, rouse, summon," from ex- "out" + vocare "to call" (see voice). Evoke is from 1623, often more or less with a sense of "calling spirits," or being called by them. Evocation was used of the Roman custom of petitioning the gods of an enemy city to abandon it and come to Rome; it was also used to translate the Platonic Gk. anamnesis "a calling up of knowledge acquired in a previous state of existence."
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: evo·ca·tion
Pronunciation: "E-vO-'kA-sh&n, "ev-&-
Function: noun
: INDUCTION 3b; specifically : initiation of development of a primary embryonic axis
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evocation ev·o·ca·tion (ěv'ə-kā'shən, ē'və-)
n.
The induction of a particular tissue produced by the action of an evocator during embryogenesis.

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