Word Finder - invocations

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The act or form of calling for the assistance or presence of some superior being, especially prayer offered to a divine being.

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A call or summons, especially a judicial call, demand, or order.

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the invocation of papers or evidence into court

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An act of invoking or claiming a legal right.

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The act of invoking something, such as a function call.

He was extremely superstitious, and believed in invocations of the dead.

Their language is vague and allegorical, full of allusions and pious Mussulman invocations; the author continually announces that he is about to speak without mystery or reserve, but all the same never gives any precise details of the secrets he professes to reveal.

The name Vispered, meaning " all the chiefs " (vispe ratavo), has reference to the spiritual heads of the religion of Ormuzd, invocations to whom form the contents of the first chapter of the book.

They contain invocations of separate Izads, or angels, number 21 in all, and are of widely divergent extent and antiquity.

As an almost universal rule, in the lowest culture, no prayers are addressed to this being; he has no sacrifices, no dwelling made with hands; and the images of him, in clay, that are made and danced round with invocations of his name at the tribal ceremonies of initiation, are destroyed at the close of the performances.

The following invocations of ' foo ' demonstrates the fact that the language is dynamically typed.

To make a booking, customers would normally engage in a conversation with the server making multiple method invocations.

As for devotions and invocations, whoever wisheth may, after the Obligatory Prayers, recite other supplications of the Blessed Perfection.

And the important consequences following from the demonstration of the identity in structure of Limulus and Scorpio are evaded by arbitrary and even phantastic invocations of a mysterious transcendental force which brings about " convergence " irrespective of heredity and selection.

He was also extremely superstitious, and believed in invocations of the dead.

But individual worship, invocations, supererogatory prayers, and specially recommended prayers are not binding.

In 1992, the Supreme Court ruled that prayers led by clergy, specifically for invocations and benedictions at graduation ceremonies in public schools, should be banned.

The ease with which explicit invocations attach themselves to many of these apparently self-contained forms proves that there is not necessarily any perceived difference of kind, and that implicit address as towards a "something not-ourselves" is often the true designation of the latter.

It is the ritual of a magician, imbedded in which, and alternating with magic formulae and other occult matter, are a number of invocations and prayers which Dieterich reconstructs as a liturgy in use by the clergy of Mithras between A.D.

The process was usually explained as the result of the action of a spirit, angel or devil, and many unessential formulae, invocations, "calls," written charms with cabbalistic signs, and fumigations, were employed.

But we have a building inscription from Persepolis, which contains his name and genealogy, and invocations of Ahuramazda and Mithra.

Belief in the power of the nakshatras evidently inspired the invocations of them in the Atharva-Veda.