INVOCATION meaning: Calling upon something for assistance

We found 34 dictionaries that define the word invocation:

General (24 matching dictionaries)

invocation: Merriam-Webster.com
invocation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
invocation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
invocation: Collins English Dictionary
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Invocation, invocation: Wordnik
invocation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
invocation: Wiktionary
invocation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
invocation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
invocation: Infoplease Dictionary
invocation: Dictionary.com
invocation: Online Etymology Dictionary
Invocation (Dew-Scented album), Invocation (The X-Files), Invocation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Invocation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
invocation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
invocation: Rhymezone
Invocation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
invocation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
invocation: Free Dictionary
invocation: Mnemonic Dictionary
invocation: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)

INVOCATION: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
invocation: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

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invocation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

invocation: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)

Arms and Armour (No longer online)
Invocation: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
invocation: The Skeptic's Dictionary
A Dictionary Of WitchCraft (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  The act or form of calling for the assistance or presence of some superior being, especially prayer offered to a divine being.
▸ noun:  (chiefly law) A call or summons, especially a judicial call, demand, or order.
▸ noun:  (law) An act of invoking or claiming a legal right.
▸ noun:  (programming) The act of invoking, such as a function call.

Opposite:

evocation, conjuring

Types:

prayer, supplication, benediction, laying on of hands, conjuration, more...

Phrases:

remote method invocation, Java remote method invocation, Asynchronous method invocation, Platform Invocation Services, United Kingdom invocation of Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, more...

Adjectives:

remote, solemn, direct, single, second, dynamic, constant, frequent, last, explicit, simple

Colors:

indigo, violet, gold, silver, white, more...

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