invocate

First attested in 1530; borrowed from Latin invocātus, perfect passive participle of invocō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of invoke.

invocate (third-person singular simple present invocates, present participle invocating, simple past and past participle invocated) (rare)

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

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

   • a. 1632 (date written), John Donne, “[Characters.] The True Character of a Dunce.”, in Paradoxes, Problemes, Essayes, Characters, […], London: […] T. N. for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1652, →OCLC, page 68:

     [B]oth the muſes and the graces are his hard Miſtriſſes, though he daily Invocate them, though he ſacrifize Hecatombs, they ſtil look a ſquint, […]

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

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

2. To conjure up or summon.
   • c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 174, column 2:

     Poore key-cold Figure of a holy King,
     Pale Aſhes of the Houſe of Lancaſter;
     Thou bloodleſſe Remnant of that Royall Blood,
     Be it lawfull that I inuocate thy Ghoſt,
     To heare the Lamentations of poore Anne,
     Wife to thy Edward, to thy ſlaugthered Sonne,
     Stab'd by the ſelfeſame hand that made theſe wounds.

• Caviteño, conative

invocate

1. inflection of invocare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

invocate f pl

1. feminine plural of invocato

• conative, nevicato, vociante

invocāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of invocō

invocate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of invocar combined with te