To call forth.--Todd. Webster. Several newspapers criticised the use of this word hy the Hon. J. Q Adams in a letter to the Hon. H. G. Otis:
Every phantom of jealousy and fear is evoked.
The following examples will show that it has been used by English writers. Mr. Todd says, it is in Cockeram's old Vocabulary, but that he has not found it in use till near a century later.
I had no sooner evoked the name of Shakspeare from the rotten monument of his former editions, &c.--Bp. Warburton to Hurd (1749), Let 6.
The only business and use of this character, is to open the subject in a long prologue, to evoke the devil, and summons the court.--Warton, Hist. of Eng. Poetry.
He was so subjugated by them, as frequently to pass many hours of the night inchurchyards, engaged in evoking and attempting to raise apparitions.--Wraxall, Hist. Memoirs, Vol. I. p. 178.