Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Evoke \E*voke"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Evoked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Evoking}.] [L. evocare; e out + vocare to call, fr. vox,
   vocis, voice: cf. F ['e]voquer. See {Voice}, and cf.
   {Evocate}.]
   1. To call out; to summon forth.

            To evoke the queen of the fairies.    --T. Warton.

            A requlating discipline of exercise, that whilst
            evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to
            be wasted.                            --De Quincey.

   2. To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another. [R.]
      ``The cause was evoked to Rome.'' --Hume.