to invoke
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6.7
- verb
- /ɪnˈvoʊk/
- Formal
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- The lawyer will invoke a specific law to support her client's argument in court.
- invoke a principle
- invoke the right
- invoke as justification
And you notice that he is going to invoke the letter from James, right?
- And you notice that he is going to invoke the letter from James, right?
- And how would you talk about that change without invoking this concept of time?
- So here I'm going to invoke Rob Knight at UCSD.
- And their expertise is germane when potentiality is invoked to make moral claims about bodies.
- The only effective way to respond to that point is to invoke Milton's moral argument.
- He also plans to invoke what's known as the enemy within attacks.
- And that's what you do to invoke cloture to end debate on a bill.
Examples
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The intent, clearly, is to scare people away from being tolerant by invoking the law of unintended consequences.
Academic text (2011) -
"I'd like to invoke the precedent of Adams v. US ex rel. McCann, where the Supreme Court is..."
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By now, I can no longer invoke that excuse.
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Well in this case I invoke regional practice.
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I will invoke a community vote.
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Now, we all know people who invoke the First Amendment, which means what again?
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A motion has been brought before the board... to invoke Article 19 of the corporate charter.
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The United States Supreme Court would invoke the principles used by Judge Hoyt over the next century.
Academic text (2017) -
The tribes may choose not to invoke their treaty rights against federal dams for the reasons stated above.
Academic text (2017) -
It's ironic that the very statement of rights you're so quick to invoke is in fact an Amendment.
Synonyms
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3.6
To mention a source to support a statement
Antonyms
How Authoritative
Surface Forms
Morphology
invoke = in + voke
Built from the prefix 'in-' + the combining form 'voke' (meaning 'call'); the connection to 'call upon' is clear to learners conceptually, but 'voke' is not a standalone English word so the composition is not fully transparent.
Etymology
Invoke comes from the Latin parts in-, 'in' or 'on', and vocare, 'to call', so to invoke a law is to 'call on' it for support, like asking a rule to back your argument.