Word Finder - evoked

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To call out; to draw out or bring forth.

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To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination.

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Being here evokes long forgotten memories.

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To elicit a response.

Sarah broke the silence with a tenuous giggle that evoked a twisted smile from Jackson.

He declares that in spite of long-established conditions and correspondingly evoked characters new conditions will cause new responsive characters.

It is supposed that these remarkable phenomena have gradually been evoked by difference in the nutrition of the alternating generations.

The balance of power between parties in parliament was held by the province of Quebec, and there racial and religious feeling evoked no slight sympathy for Riel.

In dealing with the individual eschatology we must carefully distinguish the popular ideas regarding death and the hereafter which Israel shared with the other Semitic peoples, from the intuitions, inferences, aspirations evoked in the pious by the divine revelation itself.

They created profound excitement among orthodox theologians, and evoked many replies, in which Lessing was bitterly condemned for having published writings of so dangerous a tendency.

Then all France awoke to a sense of her obligation to him, and his public funeral on the 6th of January 1883 evoked one of the most overwhelming displays of national sentiment ever witnessed on a similar occasion.

On the other hand, the Didascalia seems to have been evoked partly by Judaizing propaganda in north Syria.

The pope's negotiations with Henry's representative evoked a bitter and menacing protest and a categorical demand for the performance of promises.

Larger and thicker in the rabbit, when excited it gives rise in that animal to movements of the eyes and of the fore-limbs and neck; but it is only in much higher types, such as the dog, that the cortex yields, under experimental excitation, definitely localized foci, whence can be evoked movements of the fore-limb, hind-limb, neck, eyes, ears and face.

The movement evoked from a point of cortex is not always the same; its character is determined by movements evoked from neighbouring points of cortex immediately antecedently.

Thus among the tongue movements evoked by stigmatic stimulation of the cortex undeviated protrusion or retraction of the organ is not found.

In 1830 they came to Paris, where they sang in the streets, Rachel giving such patriotic songs as the Parisienne and the Marseillaise with a rude but precocious energy which evoked special admiration and an abundant shower of coppers.

The dissolution of the monasteries had meanwhile evoked a popular protest in the north, and it was only by skilful and unscrupulous diplomacy that Henry was enabled to suppress so easily the Pilgrimage of Grace.

St Hilaire and afterwards his son Isodore regarded variation as not indefinite but directly evoked by the demands of the environment.

The first and most obvious sentiment which sophistry evoked was an enthusiastic and admiring interest.

The ten years' crisis (1831-1841) evoked by the revolt of Mehemet Ali, pasha of Egypt, thus resolved itself into a diplomatic struggle between Russia and the other powers to maintain or to recover influence at Constantinople.

Later, observing the bitter feelings that had been evoked by the distribution of land among the veterans of Caesar, Antonius and Fulvia changed their attitude, and stood forward as the defenders of those who had suffered from its operation.

This incident, combined with the employment of the so-called Cossacks, evoked a protest from the Nationalists, who asserted that Russia was aiding the Royalists; the accusation was true only in so far as it referred to the conduct of certain Russian officials who acted without the consent of the Russian government.

Most of the literature evoked by the controversy on either side was devoted to rebutting the attack of some individual opponent.

Of the nine fundamental laws of that Priscillian, whose widespread heresy evoked from the synod of Saragossa (418) the canon, " No one shall fast on Sunday, nor may any one absent himself from church during Lent and hold a festival of his own," appears, on the question of fasting, not to have differed from the Encratites and various other sects of Manichean tendency (c. 406).

But besides this feeling of respect, Pfuel evoked pity in Prince Andrew.

The news of that battle of Tarutino, unexpectedly received by Napoleon at a review, evoked in him a desire to punish the Russians (Thiers says), and he issued the order for departure which the whole army was demanding.

Pierre had evoked the passionate affection of the Italian merely by evoking the best side of his nature and taking a pleasure in so doing.

Ferrier's investigations showed, motor reactions of the facial and sensori- limb muscles are regularly and easily evoked.

The programme was exclusively literary, but for the moment it enabled Protagoras to satisfy the demand which he had discovered and evoked.

The leader was condemned to death in the emir's court and executed in the market place of Sokoto, and the incident was chiefly interesting for the display of loyalty to the British administration which it evoked on all sides from the native rulers.

And the end times were evoked by name in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film apocalypse Now.

We are also using auditory evoked potentials to measure more directly the neural correlates of these processes.

Neonatal brainstem auditory evoked response recorded using maximum length sequences.

As shown above, the United Kingdom has an old, mostly disused blasphemy law which is rarely evoked.

Two nights before, I dreamt of being confronted by a fierce, very awake dragon and it evoked terror in me.

I began to suspect that certain sounds evoked certain emotions, like the Baptist hymns.

Pearl's troubled relationship with language is powerfully evoked.

Moreover, Giles Croft perfectly evoked a sense of each epoch of the play.

Here, time, setting and atmosphere are beautifully evoked.

The glazing in the undulating ribbon roof revealed London's billowing skyscape, a sight that somehow evoked the smell of the sea.

Their experience was that they as a family no longer evoked positive feelings but were instead pitied.

Whatever the film evoked in our feelings for Jesus, it did not instill any sense of gratitude to God.

From generation to generation, the wonder evoked by this ineffable mystery never ceases.

Maximum length sequence brainstem evoked response - a potentially sensitive means to detect neural dysfunction of the brain in high risk neonates.

Emiliana's endearing personality has evoked an equally positive response from the media.

The central sulcus (CS) was identified by somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) phase reversal.

Once Madame Roland appeared personally in the Assembly to repel the falsehoods of an accuser, and her ease and dignity evoked enthusiasm and compelled acquittal.

On the other hand, adaptations, especially those evoked by climatic or edaphic conditions, may only, be shown by the seedling if grown under the appropriate external conditions; here what is hereditary is not the actual adaptation, but the capacity for responding in a particular way to a certain set of external conditions.

The Meteoritic Hypothesis (1890) propounds a comprehensive scheme of cosmical evolution, which has evoked more dissent than approval, while the Sun's Place in Nature (1897) lays down the lines of a classification of the stars, depending upon their supposed temperature-relations.

In the duel between the hunter and the beast-mind the intellectual powers of perception, memory, reason and will were developed; experience and knowledge by experience were enlarged, language and the graphic arts were fostered, the inventive faculty was evoked and developed, and primitive science was fostered in the unfolding of numbers, metrics, clocks, astronomy, history and the philosophy of causation.

Whenever such sense is evoked it is only as a momentary relief to his prevailing sense of the hideousness of contemporary life, or in protest against what he regarded as the enervating influences of art.

Afterwards when he recalled those thoughts Pierre was convinced that someone outside himself had spoken them, though the impressions of that day had evoked them.

Antonioni 's Italy is a far cry from the bucolic romanticism evoked by Florence.