INVOKE
invoke
Verb
- To call upon (a person, especially a god) for help, assistance or guidance.
- To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority.
- In certain Christian circles invoking the Bible constitutes irrefutable proof.
- To conjure up with incantations.
- This satanist ritual invokes Beelzebub.
- To bring about as an inevitable consequence.
- Blasphemy is taboo as it may invoke divine wrath.
- To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude.
- The envoy invoked the King of Kings's magnanimity to reduce his province's tribute after another draught.
- To cause (a program or subroutine) to execute.
- Interactive programs let the users enter choices and invoke the corresponding routines.
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