invocate (invocates, present participle invocating; past and past participle invocated)

1. To invoke or implore
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 38”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted‎, London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634 ↗:

     Be thou the tenth Muſe, ten times more in worth / Then thoſe old nine which rimers inuocate,

   • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398 ↗, page 69 ↗:

     For proof hereof, if Dagon be thy god, / Go to his Temple, invocate his aid

2. To summon or conjure up

• invocation