evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"
request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection; "appeal to somebody for help"; "Invoke God in times of trouble"
(v.) to call a subroutine by a CALL statement or by a defined assignment statement. To call a function by a reference to it by name or operator during the evaluation of an expression.
To petition or call for help or aid through prayer.
to bring something or call something to you. An invocation to the goddess is a poem or recitation asking the goddess to come join you.
To invoke something is to bring that something to being inside ourselves. To invoke a deity to to ask that deity to manifest within us and within our lives, as reflected by ourselves. It is literally to bring something from outside ourselves within, to invite it in.
To call upon spiritual forces, energies or entities. To invoke magik is to summon magikal energies for a particular purpose or event.