to call up or produce (memories, feelings, etc.): to evoke a memory.
2.
to elicit or draw forth: His comment evoked protests from the shocked listeners.
3.
to call up; cause to appear; summon: to evoke a spirit from the dead.
4.
to produce or suggest through artistry and imagination a vivid impression of reality: a short passage that manages to evoke the smells, colors, sounds, and shapes of that metropolis.
Origin: 1615–25; < L ēvocāre, equiv. to ē-e-+ vocāre to call (akin to vōxvoice)
To summon or call forth: actions that evoked our mistrust.
To call to mind by naming, citing, or suggesting: songs that evoke old memories.
To create anew, especially by means of the imagination: a novel that evokes the Depression in accurate detail.
[Latin ēvocāre : ē-, ex-, ex- + vocāre, to call; see wekw- in Indo-European roots.] ev'o·ca·ble (ěv'ə-kə-bəl, ĭ-vō'kə-) adj.
Synonyms: These verbs mean to draw forth or bring out something latent, hidden, or unexpressed: evoke laughter; educed significance from the event; trying to elicit the truth.
[i-vohk] 
