Definition of invocation in English:

invocation

noun ˌɪnvə(ʊ)ˈkeɪʃ(ə)nˌɪnvəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n

mass noun

1The action of invoking someone or something.
his invocation of the ancient powers of Callanish
他向卡拉尼什古老神魔力量的祈求。
Example sentencesExamples
- The client then uses its filter registry to invoke the filters during a subsequent method invocation.
- I know that the Prime Minister's invocation of ‘education, education, education’ has become a political cliche, but he is right.
- That may not be the most compelling reason to stop the war, but it should certainly temper her teary-eyed invocation of soldier mythology.
- Communal politics and sectarianism depends on the creation of religious hatreds and divides, the assertion and invocation of continual self-pity and victim hood.
- The arousal of pseudo ‘nationalistic fervour’ by the continuous invocation of a foreign threat as the source of all problems is only the first point of similarity.
- I fear that the shameless invocation of democratic imagery to shroud fundamentally anti-democratic action is gradually seeping in and taking hold of Australia Felix.
- There is also the habitual invocation by Chomsky of the precedent of Nazi Germany when discussing Western liberal democracies.
- In On Belief, Zizek in effect counters Lewis's argument with his invocation of the existential Heidegger.
- The parliament will be fully involved in any decision on invocation of the safeguard clauses.
- The most recent invocation came during a press conference this week in which the CPC Central Committee's Organization Department deputy head Li Jingtian fielded questions from the press.
- Perhaps Brandis's ill-considered invocation of the rise of Nazism will have a salutary effect after all, if it spurs his intended targets among the Greens to study this background further.
- It may even have been a fine speech - his closing passage, with its invocation of his family's suffering under Hitler, was unusual and quietly emotional.
- But the the most compelling environmental feat, on the mostly open stage, is her invocation of the oppressive and threatening mood that hangs over even moments of playfulness.
- His rather bizarre invocation of the 1998 Waterfront dispute as an example of ‘courage’ in his policy speech can only be justified by this idée fixe.
- This affinity almost declares itself when he quotes Orwell endorsing Milton's invocation of ‘the known rules of ancient liberty’.
- I hear cries of outrange from the human rights campaigners, and in invocation of the Human Rights Act.
- You may make of that what you will, but we find ourselves confronted by the artist's apparently blasé invocation of the beauty of nature and her means of achieving it by destroying nature.
- Nevertheless, and despite Justice Kirby's ringing invocation of abiding freedoms, there are some pretty good reasons why the suppression order might well be regarded as appropriate in this case.
- I know you can attempt an experimental structure for a poem, even try a mindmap I suppose, but the best invocation of a thought is still transferred from human to human by words and nicely structured words are best.
- ‘Purge the evil,’ some chanted in Chinese, a common Falun Gong invocation.
Synonyms
citation, mention, acknowledgement, calling on
appeal to, reference to, allusion to
summoning, bringing, calling, conjuring (up)
1. 1.1count noun An incantation used to invoke a deity or the supernatural.
  求神，乞灵，祈求神助
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the weeks ahead there will also be invocations to the deity.
  The ceremony begins with chanted invocations and prayers, accompanied by the urgings of horns, cymbals and drums.
  As this court shows, the Founders demonstrate by their behavior that the First Amendment was not intended to prohibit states from sanctioning ceremonial invocations of God.
  Study of primitive peoples who believe in the supernatural can produce many examples of the results of incantations, potions, charms, rites or invocations.
  This invocation, replete with rich mythological allusions, has been an important item in the devotional repertoire of all Kashmir Hindus for the last several decades.
  The opening line of the invocation is, ‘In faith that we are Buddha, we enter Buddha's Way.’
  I reproduce below Duggal's translation of the invocation and the first verse followed by my rendering of the same.
  Because it is primarily expressed through ritual action, mena can be described as an acting agent in chants, invocations, and other forms of evocation directed at natural or supernatural spheres.
  And it is the attempt to make such decisions beyond challenge, through the invocation of a supernatural authority.
  The fax of the letter that I received, unlike the version published in the Arabic newspapers has ‘from’ after the invocation of God, and three ellipses showing that the name has been deleted.
  As soon as someone tells us how invocations of the supernatural will help us solve a problem, they will be embraced immediately.
  Works like these are the focal point of a community's spiritual life, prayers, and invocations for ancestral intervention.
  All functions, even a lecture in the University, begin with the invocation and even as most men wear Western coats and trousers, no one wears a necktie because it reminds them of the Cross and Christianity.
  This course will not practice or discuss at length any rituals, spells, or invocations.
  A type of poetic singing in the Araucanian language includes the reciting of legends, special invocations and prayers, and stories associated with the forces of life and death.
  He dug through his list of incantations, invocations and other such spells to little avail.
  Held at NASA's Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas, the service opened with an invocation partly in Hebrew by a navy rabbi and the hymns, God of Our Fathers and Eternal Father.
  They have selected prayers for peace, which I don't particularly like (probably because they're all a bit hackneyed), but also a couple of ways of choosing random celebrations, invocations and meditations.
  Unlike devotional invocations and prayers attached with other classical Indian dances, Bhangra, one may unhesitatingly say, is closer to nature and has a worker-like, down-to-earth theme.
  Indeed, to the uninitiated, the mysteries surrounding it are not dissimilar to the weird invocations of some ancient cult.
  The elaborate pharmacopeia of ancient times was now replaced by supernatural invocations - prayers, incantations, amulets, and exorcisms.
  The ongoing use of specific sigils, alphabets, glyphs, invocations, deities, though-forms, etc is what makes the systems so powerful.
  On another point - I like the idea that one should form a relationship with the deity as a precursor to a full invocation.
  In what was, to Renaissance readers, a shocking passage, the Asclepius indicated that statues of gods, in antiquity, were brought to completion through the invocation of demons.
  For centuries, we have marked important occasions or pronouncements with references to God and invocations of divine assistance.
  The priestess resumed the invocation with nary a whit of acknowledgment.
  Almost nothing can happen - certainly nothing can be officially opened - without a Maori ceremony, which will frequently include a lifting of tapu, or an invocation to banish spirits.
  As the many Shias on his list gave tongue in response, and answered his Koranic invocations, we could see the difficulties ahead.
  The Family Research Council has sought to clarify its position on prayers uttered before Congress after an article in its online publication criticized a precedent-breaking invocation by a Hindu priest.
  Prayers to God have invocations for health, happiness, and peace on the earth.
2. 1.2count noun (in the Christian Church) a form of words such as ‘In the name of the Father’ introducing a prayer, sermon, etc.
  （指基督教会）（祈祷，布道等开始时）引词
  Example sentencesExamples
  The cycle of weekly liturgies, the daily routine of morning prayer and evening song, and the unceasing invocation of the name of Jesus were intimately connected and interactively life-giving as blood cells in a body.
  The local minister who delivered the invocation declared, ‘Thank you, God, for a president who protects our liberty while others cower behind diplomacy.’
  As he ended his sermon with a solemn invocation of the Trinity, the angels (in one version it is the stones of a rocky valley) responded ‘Amen, very venerable Bede.’
  By combining Horatian meter with a simple but passionate invocation of the Christian God, Johnson moves from the world of classical Latin to the prayers and hymns of the early Church Fathers.
  Twenty-one solemn pieces and invocations to 95 saints were sung by a male soloist and the responses were delivered pitch perfect by a practised congregation.
  These should include the Lord's Prayer, a confession and absolution, a short reading from the Gospels with a request to our Lord for his help, and an invocation of the Holy Spirit.
  I remember my disbelief when the cell phone on the belt of the man next to me rang during a Yule invocation.
  Be met not with a Te Deum or an awe-inspiring invocation, but with a chatty ‘Hi-ya, seekers, let's have a friendly time today.’
  Thanksgiving and public prayer, the invocation of the name of God at the occasion of any major official gathering, are, in the practical behavior of the nation, a token of this very same spirit and inspiration.
  True to form, he gave what amounted to a sermon, complete with invocations of god and a biblical quotation.
  Indeed, children in the family setting may hear similar invocations and benedictions at inaugurals and other public ceremonies.
  An excerpt from the landmark Supreme Judicial Court decision that legalized gay marriage was read as an invocation at the Unitarian Universalist church.
  I have to tolerate mandatory formations being opened with an invocation by the chaplain.
  There are many invocations of Mary amongst Latin Americans.
  The Reverend David Allen, President Allen's brother-in-law, gave the invocation after asking the audience to join in a moment of silence for caregivers and military personnel around the world.
  Geoff was back, the invocation and anthem were over, and it was time to go racing.
  The invocation started with a soulful rendition of the prayer song by the younger students of Upasana.
  A pre-Christmas service was held at the same venue where an invocation prayer was offered.
  Make the presentation much more prayerlike, an invocation for the Spirit to help us with our own baptismal vows.
  A majority of students and parents feel a need to mark graduations with religious invocations.
  Synonyms
  prayer, request, intercession, supplication, call, entreaty, solicitation, petition, appeal, suit
  incantation, chant
  archaic orison
  rare imploration, adjuration, obsecration, epiclesis

Derivatives

invocatory

adjective ɪnˈvɒkət(ə)riɪnˈvɑkəˌtɔri

The concert started with a Pushpanjali in Nattai, the traditional invocatory piece.
Example sentencesExamples
- This segued into a musical section with the dancers joining the musicians, using gourds to enhance their invocatory circle and line dances.
- The hunters’ booming, percussive harp rhythms and urgent invocatory singing seemed to be everywhere.
- Five dancers performed the invocatory item to Lord Krishna, which is the start of a Manipuri recital.
- The youth music festival begins with an invocatory violin concert by Malavika and Sharada, both upcoming artistes.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin invocatio(n-), from the verb invocare (see invoke).

Definition of invocation in US English:

invocation

nounˌinvəˈkāSH(ə)nˌɪnvəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n

1The action of invoking something or someone for assistance or as an authority.
引用，援引
the invocation of new disciplines and methodologies
对于新学科和新方法论的援引。
Example sentencesExamples
- That may not be the most compelling reason to stop the war, but it should certainly temper her teary-eyed invocation of soldier mythology.
- I fear that the shameless invocation of democratic imagery to shroud fundamentally anti-democratic action is gradually seeping in and taking hold of Australia Felix.
- It may even have been a fine speech - his closing passage, with its invocation of his family's suffering under Hitler, was unusual and quietly emotional.
- You may make of that what you will, but we find ourselves confronted by the artist's apparently blasé invocation of the beauty of nature and her means of achieving it by destroying nature.
- I hear cries of outrange from the human rights campaigners, and in invocation of the Human Rights Act.
- I know you can attempt an experimental structure for a poem, even try a mindmap I suppose, but the best invocation of a thought is still transferred from human to human by words and nicely structured words are best.
- Nevertheless, and despite Justice Kirby's ringing invocation of abiding freedoms, there are some pretty good reasons why the suppression order might well be regarded as appropriate in this case.
- This affinity almost declares itself when he quotes Orwell endorsing Milton's invocation of ‘the known rules of ancient liberty’.
- But the the most compelling environmental feat, on the mostly open stage, is her invocation of the oppressive and threatening mood that hangs over even moments of playfulness.
- There is also the habitual invocation by Chomsky of the precedent of Nazi Germany when discussing Western liberal democracies.
- Communal politics and sectarianism depends on the creation of religious hatreds and divides, the assertion and invocation of continual self-pity and victim hood.
- The client then uses its filter registry to invoke the filters during a subsequent method invocation.
- His rather bizarre invocation of the 1998 Waterfront dispute as an example of ‘courage’ in his policy speech can only be justified by this idée fixe.
- The parliament will be fully involved in any decision on invocation of the safeguard clauses.
- Perhaps Brandis's ill-considered invocation of the rise of Nazism will have a salutary effect after all, if it spurs his intended targets among the Greens to study this background further.
- The most recent invocation came during a press conference this week in which the CPC Central Committee's Organization Department deputy head Li Jingtian fielded questions from the press.
- In On Belief, Zizek in effect counters Lewis's argument with his invocation of the existential Heidegger.
- The arousal of pseudo ‘nationalistic fervour’ by the continuous invocation of a foreign threat as the source of all problems is only the first point of similarity.
- ‘Purge the evil,’ some chanted in Chinese, a common Falun Gong invocation.
- I know that the Prime Minister's invocation of ‘education, education, education’ has become a political cliche, but he is right.
Synonyms
citation, mention, acknowledgement, calling on
summoning, bringing, calling, conjuring, conjuring up
1. 1.1 The summoning of a deity or the supernatural.
  求神，乞灵，祈求神助
  his invocation of the ancient mystical powers
  他向卡拉尼什古老神魔力量的祈求。
2. 1.2 An incantation used to invoke a deity or the supernatural.
  求神，乞灵，祈求神助
  Example sentencesExamples
  Held at NASA's Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas, the service opened with an invocation partly in Hebrew by a navy rabbi and the hymns, God of Our Fathers and Eternal Father.
  He dug through his list of incantations, invocations and other such spells to little avail.
  Works like these are the focal point of a community's spiritual life, prayers, and invocations for ancestral intervention.
  I reproduce below Duggal's translation of the invocation and the first verse followed by my rendering of the same.
  Almost nothing can happen - certainly nothing can be officially opened - without a Maori ceremony, which will frequently include a lifting of tapu, or an invocation to banish spirits.
  They have selected prayers for peace, which I don't particularly like (probably because they're all a bit hackneyed), but also a couple of ways of choosing random celebrations, invocations and meditations.
  This invocation, replete with rich mythological allusions, has been an important item in the devotional repertoire of all Kashmir Hindus for the last several decades.
  Indeed, to the uninitiated, the mysteries surrounding it are not dissimilar to the weird invocations of some ancient cult.
  The Family Research Council has sought to clarify its position on prayers uttered before Congress after an article in its online publication criticized a precedent-breaking invocation by a Hindu priest.
  For centuries, we have marked important occasions or pronouncements with references to God and invocations of divine assistance.
  In the weeks ahead there will also be invocations to the deity.
  In what was, to Renaissance readers, a shocking passage, the Asclepius indicated that statues of gods, in antiquity, were brought to completion through the invocation of demons.
  As the many Shias on his list gave tongue in response, and answered his Koranic invocations, we could see the difficulties ahead.
  Prayers to God have invocations for health, happiness, and peace on the earth.
  The ceremony begins with chanted invocations and prayers, accompanied by the urgings of horns, cymbals and drums.
  As this court shows, the Founders demonstrate by their behavior that the First Amendment was not intended to prohibit states from sanctioning ceremonial invocations of God.
  The priestess resumed the invocation with nary a whit of acknowledgment.
  A type of poetic singing in the Araucanian language includes the reciting of legends, special invocations and prayers, and stories associated with the forces of life and death.
  The opening line of the invocation is, ‘In faith that we are Buddha, we enter Buddha's Way.’
  The fax of the letter that I received, unlike the version published in the Arabic newspapers has ‘from’ after the invocation of God, and three ellipses showing that the name has been deleted.
  This course will not practice or discuss at length any rituals, spells, or invocations.
  The ongoing use of specific sigils, alphabets, glyphs, invocations, deities, though-forms, etc is what makes the systems so powerful.
  As soon as someone tells us how invocations of the supernatural will help us solve a problem, they will be embraced immediately.
  Because it is primarily expressed through ritual action, mena can be described as an acting agent in chants, invocations, and other forms of evocation directed at natural or supernatural spheres.
  On another point - I like the idea that one should form a relationship with the deity as a precursor to a full invocation.
  And it is the attempt to make such decisions beyond challenge, through the invocation of a supernatural authority.
  All functions, even a lecture in the University, begin with the invocation and even as most men wear Western coats and trousers, no one wears a necktie because it reminds them of the Cross and Christianity.
  Unlike devotional invocations and prayers attached with other classical Indian dances, Bhangra, one may unhesitatingly say, is closer to nature and has a worker-like, down-to-earth theme.
  The elaborate pharmacopeia of ancient times was now replaced by supernatural invocations - prayers, incantations, amulets, and exorcisms.
  Study of primitive peoples who believe in the supernatural can produce many examples of the results of incantations, potions, charms, rites or invocations.
3. 1.3 (in the Christian Church) a form of words such as “In the name of the Father” introducing a prayer, sermon, etc.
  （指基督教会）（祈祷，布道等开始时）引词
  Example sentencesExamples
  Make the presentation much more prayerlike, an invocation for the Spirit to help us with our own baptismal vows.
  There are many invocations of Mary amongst Latin Americans.
  An excerpt from the landmark Supreme Judicial Court decision that legalized gay marriage was read as an invocation at the Unitarian Universalist church.
  These should include the Lord's Prayer, a confession and absolution, a short reading from the Gospels with a request to our Lord for his help, and an invocation of the Holy Spirit.
  Thanksgiving and public prayer, the invocation of the name of God at the occasion of any major official gathering, are, in the practical behavior of the nation, a token of this very same spirit and inspiration.
  Geoff was back, the invocation and anthem were over, and it was time to go racing.
  By combining Horatian meter with a simple but passionate invocation of the Christian God, Johnson moves from the world of classical Latin to the prayers and hymns of the early Church Fathers.
  Be met not with a Te Deum or an awe-inspiring invocation, but with a chatty ‘Hi-ya, seekers, let's have a friendly time today.’
  Indeed, children in the family setting may hear similar invocations and benedictions at inaugurals and other public ceremonies.
  Twenty-one solemn pieces and invocations to 95 saints were sung by a male soloist and the responses were delivered pitch perfect by a practised congregation.
  I remember my disbelief when the cell phone on the belt of the man next to me rang during a Yule invocation.
  The invocation started with a soulful rendition of the prayer song by the younger students of Upasana.
  The Reverend David Allen, President Allen's brother-in-law, gave the invocation after asking the audience to join in a moment of silence for caregivers and military personnel around the world.
  True to form, he gave what amounted to a sermon, complete with invocations of god and a biblical quotation.
  The cycle of weekly liturgies, the daily routine of morning prayer and evening song, and the unceasing invocation of the name of Jesus were intimately connected and interactively life-giving as blood cells in a body.
  I have to tolerate mandatory formations being opened with an invocation by the chaplain.
  The local minister who delivered the invocation declared, ‘Thank you, God, for a president who protects our liberty while others cower behind diplomacy.’
  A majority of students and parents feel a need to mark graduations with religious invocations.
  As he ended his sermon with a solemn invocation of the Trinity, the angels (in one version it is the stones of a rocky valley) responded ‘Amen, very venerable Bede.’
  A pre-Christmas service was held at the same venue where an invocation prayer was offered.
  Synonyms
  prayer, request, intercession, supplication, call, entreaty, solicitation, petition, appeal, suit

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin invocatio(n-), from the verb invocare (see invoke).

词汇	invocation
释义	Definition of invocation in English: invocation noun ˌɪnvə(ʊ)ˈkeɪʃ(ə)nˌɪnvəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n mass noun 1The action of invoking someone or something. his invocation of the ancient powers of Callanish 他向卡拉尼什古老神魔力量的祈求。 Example sentencesExamples The client then uses its filter registry to invoke the filters during a subsequent method invocation. I know that the Prime Minister's invocation of ‘education, education, education’ has become a political cliche, but he is right. That may not be the most compelling reason to stop the war, but it should certainly temper her teary-eyed invocation of soldier mythology. Communal politics and sectarianism depends on the creation of religious hatreds and divides, the assertion and invocation of continual self-pity and victim hood. The arousal of pseudo ‘nationalistic fervour’ by the continuous invocation of a foreign threat as the source of all problems is only the first point of similarity. I fear that the shameless invocation of democratic imagery to shroud fundamentally anti-democratic action is gradually seeping in and taking hold of Australia Felix. There is also the habitual invocation by Chomsky of the precedent of Nazi Germany when discussing Western liberal democracies. In On Belief, Zizek in effect counters Lewis's argument with his invocation of the existential Heidegger. The parliament will be fully involved in any decision on invocation of the safeguard clauses. The most recent invocation came during a press conference this week in which the CPC Central Committee's Organization Department deputy head Li Jingtian fielded questions from the press. Perhaps Brandis's ill-considered invocation of the rise of Nazism will have a salutary effect after all, if it spurs his intended targets among the Greens to study this background further. It may even have been a fine speech - his closing passage, with its invocation of his family's suffering under Hitler, was unusual and quietly emotional. But the the most compelling environmental feat, on the mostly open stage, is her invocation of the oppressive and threatening mood that hangs over even moments of playfulness. His rather bizarre invocation of the 1998 Waterfront dispute as an example of ‘courage’ in his policy speech can only be justified by this idée fixe. This affinity almost declares itself when he quotes Orwell endorsing Milton's invocation of ‘the known rules of ancient liberty’. I hear cries of outrange from the human rights campaigners, and in invocation of the Human Rights Act. You may make of that what you will, but we find ourselves confronted by the artist's apparently blasé invocation of the beauty of nature and her means of achieving it by destroying nature. Nevertheless, and despite Justice Kirby's ringing invocation of abiding freedoms, there are some pretty good reasons why the suppression order might well be regarded as appropriate in this case. I know you can attempt an experimental structure for a poem, even try a mindmap I suppose, but the best invocation of a thought is still transferred from human to human by words and nicely structured words are best. ‘Purge the evil,’ some chanted in Chinese, a common Falun Gong invocation. Synonyms citation, mention, acknowledgement, calling on appeal to, reference to, allusion to summoning, bringing, calling, conjuring (up) 1.1count noun An incantation used to invoke a deity or the supernatural. 求神，乞灵，祈求神助 Example sentencesExamples In the weeks ahead there will also be invocations to the deity. The ceremony begins with chanted invocations and prayers, accompanied by the urgings of horns, cymbals and drums. As this court shows, the Founders demonstrate by their behavior that the First Amendment was not intended to prohibit states from sanctioning ceremonial invocations of God. Study of primitive peoples who believe in the supernatural can produce many examples of the results of incantations, potions, charms, rites or invocations. This invocation, replete with rich mythological allusions, has been an important item in the devotional repertoire of all Kashmir Hindus for the last several decades. The opening line of the invocation is, ‘In faith that we are Buddha, we enter Buddha's Way.’ I reproduce below Duggal's translation of the invocation and the first verse followed by my rendering of the same. Because it is primarily expressed through ritual action, mena can be described as an acting agent in chants, invocations, and other forms of evocation directed at natural or supernatural spheres. And it is the attempt to make such decisions beyond challenge, through the invocation of a supernatural authority. The fax of the letter that I received, unlike the version published in the Arabic newspapers has ‘from’ after the invocation of God, and three ellipses showing that the name has been deleted. As soon as someone tells us how invocations of the supernatural will help us solve a problem, they will be embraced immediately. Works like these are the focal point of a community's spiritual life, prayers, and invocations for ancestral intervention. All functions, even a lecture in the University, begin with the invocation and even as most men wear Western coats and trousers, no one wears a necktie because it reminds them of the Cross and Christianity. This course will not practice or discuss at length any rituals, spells, or invocations. A type of poetic singing in the Araucanian language includes the reciting of legends, special invocations and prayers, and stories associated with the forces of life and death. He dug through his list of incantations, invocations and other such spells to little avail. Held at NASA's Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas, the service opened with an invocation partly in Hebrew by a navy rabbi and the hymns, God of Our Fathers and Eternal Father. They have selected prayers for peace, which I don't particularly like (probably because they're all a bit hackneyed), but also a couple of ways of choosing random celebrations, invocations and meditations. Unlike devotional invocations and prayers attached with other classical Indian dances, Bhangra, one may unhesitatingly say, is closer to nature and has a worker-like, down-to-earth theme. Indeed, to the uninitiated, the mysteries surrounding it are not dissimilar to the weird invocations of some ancient cult. The elaborate pharmacopeia of ancient times was now replaced by supernatural invocations - prayers, incantations, amulets, and exorcisms. The ongoing use of specific sigils, alphabets, glyphs, invocations, deities, though-forms, etc is what makes the systems so powerful. On another point - I like the idea that one should form a relationship with the deity as a precursor to a full invocation. In what was, to Renaissance readers, a shocking passage, the Asclepius indicated that statues of gods, in antiquity, were brought to completion through the invocation of demons. For centuries, we have marked important occasions or pronouncements with references to God and invocations of divine assistance. The priestess resumed the invocation with nary a whit of acknowledgment. Almost nothing can happen - certainly nothing can be officially opened - without a Maori ceremony, which will frequently include a lifting of tapu, or an invocation to banish spirits. As the many Shias on his list gave tongue in response, and answered his Koranic invocations, we could see the difficulties ahead. The Family Research Council has sought to clarify its position on prayers uttered before Congress after an article in its online publication criticized a precedent-breaking invocation by a Hindu priest. Prayers to God have invocations for health, happiness, and peace on the earth. 1.2count noun (in the Christian Church) a form of words such as ‘In the name of the Father’ introducing a prayer, sermon, etc. （指基督教会）（祈祷，布道等开始时）引词 Example sentencesExamples The cycle of weekly liturgies, the daily routine of morning prayer and evening song, and the unceasing invocation of the name of Jesus were intimately connected and interactively life-giving as blood cells in a body. The local minister who delivered the invocation declared, ‘Thank you, God, for a president who protects our liberty while others cower behind diplomacy.’ As he ended his sermon with a solemn invocation of the Trinity, the angels (in one version it is the stones of a rocky valley) responded ‘Amen, very venerable Bede.’ By combining Horatian meter with a simple but passionate invocation of the Christian God, Johnson moves from the world of classical Latin to the prayers and hymns of the early Church Fathers. Twenty-one solemn pieces and invocations to 95 saints were sung by a male soloist and the responses were delivered pitch perfect by a practised congregation. These should include the Lord's Prayer, a confession and absolution, a short reading from the Gospels with a request to our Lord for his help, and an invocation of the Holy Spirit. I remember my disbelief when the cell phone on the belt of the man next to me rang during a Yule invocation. Be met not with a Te Deum or an awe-inspiring invocation, but with a chatty ‘Hi-ya, seekers, let's have a friendly time today.’ Thanksgiving and public prayer, the invocation of the name of God at the occasion of any major official gathering, are, in the practical behavior of the nation, a token of this very same spirit and inspiration. True to form, he gave what amounted to a sermon, complete with invocations of god and a biblical quotation. Indeed, children in the family setting may hear similar invocations and benedictions at inaugurals and other public ceremonies. An excerpt from the landmark Supreme Judicial Court decision that legalized gay marriage was read as an invocation at the Unitarian Universalist church. I have to tolerate mandatory formations being opened with an invocation by the chaplain. There are many invocations of Mary amongst Latin Americans. The Reverend David Allen, President Allen's brother-in-law, gave the invocation after asking the audience to join in a moment of silence for caregivers and military personnel around the world. Geoff was back, the invocation and anthem were over, and it was time to go racing. The invocation started with a soulful rendition of the prayer song by the younger students of Upasana. A pre-Christmas service was held at the same venue where an invocation prayer was offered. Make the presentation much more prayerlike, an invocation for the Spirit to help us with our own baptismal vows. A majority of students and parents feel a need to mark graduations with religious invocations. Synonyms prayer, request, intercession, supplication, call, entreaty, solicitation, petition, appeal, suit incantation, chant archaic orison rare imploration, adjuration, obsecration, epiclesis Derivatives invocatory adjective ɪnˈvɒkət(ə)riɪnˈvɑkəˌtɔri The concert started with a Pushpanjali in Nattai, the traditional invocatory piece. Example sentencesExamples This segued into a musical section with the dancers joining the musicians, using gourds to enhance their invocatory circle and line dances. The hunters’ booming, percussive harp rhythms and urgent invocatory singing seemed to be everywhere. Five dancers performed the invocatory item to Lord Krishna, which is the start of a Manipuri recital. The youth music festival begins with an invocatory violin concert by Malavika and Sharada, both upcoming artistes. Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin invocatio(n-), from the verb invocare (see invoke). Definition of invocation in US English: invocation nounˌinvəˈkāSH(ə)nˌɪnvəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n 1The action of invoking something or someone for assistance or as an authority. 引用，援引 the invocation of new disciplines and methodologies 对于新学科和新方法论的援引。 Example sentencesExamples That may not be the most compelling reason to stop the war, but it should certainly temper her teary-eyed invocation of soldier mythology. I fear that the shameless invocation of democratic imagery to shroud fundamentally anti-democratic action is gradually seeping in and taking hold of Australia Felix. It may even have been a fine speech - his closing passage, with its invocation of his family's suffering under Hitler, was unusual and quietly emotional. You may make of that what you will, but we find ourselves confronted by the artist's apparently blasé invocation of the beauty of nature and her means of achieving it by destroying nature. I hear cries of outrange from the human rights campaigners, and in invocation of the Human Rights Act. I know you can attempt an experimental structure for a poem, even try a mindmap I suppose, but the best invocation of a thought is still transferred from human to human by words and nicely structured words are best. Nevertheless, and despite Justice Kirby's ringing invocation of abiding freedoms, there are some pretty good reasons why the suppression order might well be regarded as appropriate in this case. This affinity almost declares itself when he quotes Orwell endorsing Milton's invocation of ‘the known rules of ancient liberty’. But the the most compelling environmental feat, on the mostly open stage, is her invocation of the oppressive and threatening mood that hangs over even moments of playfulness. There is also the habitual invocation by Chomsky of the precedent of Nazi Germany when discussing Western liberal democracies. Communal politics and sectarianism depends on the creation of religious hatreds and divides, the assertion and invocation of continual self-pity and victim hood. The client then uses its filter registry to invoke the filters during a subsequent method invocation. His rather bizarre invocation of the 1998 Waterfront dispute as an example of ‘courage’ in his policy speech can only be justified by this idée fixe. The parliament will be fully involved in any decision on invocation of the safeguard clauses. Perhaps Brandis's ill-considered invocation of the rise of Nazism will have a salutary effect after all, if it spurs his intended targets among the Greens to study this background further. The most recent invocation came during a press conference this week in which the CPC Central Committee's Organization Department deputy head Li Jingtian fielded questions from the press. In On Belief, Zizek in effect counters Lewis's argument with his invocation of the existential Heidegger. The arousal of pseudo ‘nationalistic fervour’ by the continuous invocation of a foreign threat as the source of all problems is only the first point of similarity. ‘Purge the evil,’ some chanted in Chinese, a common Falun Gong invocation. I know that the Prime Minister's invocation of ‘education, education, education’ has become a political cliche, but he is right. Synonyms citation, mention, acknowledgement, calling on summoning, bringing, calling, conjuring, conjuring up 1.1 The summoning of a deity or the supernatural. 求神，乞灵，祈求神助 his invocation of the ancient mystical powers 他向卡拉尼什古老神魔力量的祈求。 1.2 An incantation used to invoke a deity or the supernatural. 求神，乞灵，祈求神助 Example sentencesExamples Held at NASA's Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas, the service opened with an invocation partly in Hebrew by a navy rabbi and the hymns, God of Our Fathers and Eternal Father. He dug through his list of incantations, invocations and other such spells to little avail. Works like these are the focal point of a community's spiritual life, prayers, and invocations for ancestral intervention. I reproduce below Duggal's translation of the invocation and the first verse followed by my rendering of the same. Almost nothing can happen - certainly nothing can be officially opened - without a Maori ceremony, which will frequently include a lifting of tapu, or an invocation to banish spirits. They have selected prayers for peace, which I don't particularly like (probably because they're all a bit hackneyed), but also a couple of ways of choosing random celebrations, invocations and meditations. This invocation, replete with rich mythological allusions, has been an important item in the devotional repertoire of all Kashmir Hindus for the last several decades. Indeed, to the uninitiated, the mysteries surrounding it are not dissimilar to the weird invocations of some ancient cult. The Family Research Council has sought to clarify its position on prayers uttered before Congress after an article in its online publication criticized a precedent-breaking invocation by a Hindu priest. For centuries, we have marked important occasions or pronouncements with references to God and invocations of divine assistance. In the weeks ahead there will also be invocations to the deity. In what was, to Renaissance readers, a shocking passage, the Asclepius indicated that statues of gods, in antiquity, were brought to completion through the invocation of demons. As the many Shias on his list gave tongue in response, and answered his Koranic invocations, we could see the difficulties ahead. Prayers to God have invocations for health, happiness, and peace on the earth. The ceremony begins with chanted invocations and prayers, accompanied by the urgings of horns, cymbals and drums. As this court shows, the Founders demonstrate by their behavior that the First Amendment was not intended to prohibit states from sanctioning ceremonial invocations of God. The priestess resumed the invocation with nary a whit of acknowledgment. A type of poetic singing in the Araucanian language includes the reciting of legends, special invocations and prayers, and stories associated with the forces of life and death. The opening line of the invocation is, ‘In faith that we are Buddha, we enter Buddha's Way.’ The fax of the letter that I received, unlike the version published in the Arabic newspapers has ‘from’ after the invocation of God, and three ellipses showing that the name has been deleted. This course will not practice or discuss at length any rituals, spells, or invocations. The ongoing use of specific sigils, alphabets, glyphs, invocations, deities, though-forms, etc is what makes the systems so powerful. As soon as someone tells us how invocations of the supernatural will help us solve a problem, they will be embraced immediately. Because it is primarily expressed through ritual action, mena can be described as an acting agent in chants, invocations, and other forms of evocation directed at natural or supernatural spheres. On another point - I like the idea that one should form a relationship with the deity as a precursor to a full invocation. And it is the attempt to make such decisions beyond challenge, through the invocation of a supernatural authority. All functions, even a lecture in the University, begin with the invocation and even as most men wear Western coats and trousers, no one wears a necktie because it reminds them of the Cross and Christianity. Unlike devotional invocations and prayers attached with other classical Indian dances, Bhangra, one may unhesitatingly say, is closer to nature and has a worker-like, down-to-earth theme. The elaborate pharmacopeia of ancient times was now replaced by supernatural invocations - prayers, incantations, amulets, and exorcisms. Study of primitive peoples who believe in the supernatural can produce many examples of the results of incantations, potions, charms, rites or invocations. 1.3 (in the Christian Church) a form of words such as “In the name of the Father” introducing a prayer, sermon, etc. （指基督教会）（祈祷，布道等开始时）引词 Example sentencesExamples Make the presentation much more prayerlike, an invocation for the Spirit to help us with our own baptismal vows. There are many invocations of Mary amongst Latin Americans. An excerpt from the landmark Supreme Judicial Court decision that legalized gay marriage was read as an invocation at the Unitarian Universalist church. These should include the Lord's Prayer, a confession and absolution, a short reading from the Gospels with a request to our Lord for his help, and an invocation of the Holy Spirit. Thanksgiving and public prayer, the invocation of the name of God at the occasion of any major official gathering, are, in the practical behavior of the nation, a token of this very same spirit and inspiration. Geoff was back, the invocation and anthem were over, and it was time to go racing. By combining Horatian meter with a simple but passionate invocation of the Christian God, Johnson moves from the world of classical Latin to the prayers and hymns of the early Church Fathers. Be met not with a Te Deum or an awe-inspiring invocation, but with a chatty ‘Hi-ya, seekers, let's have a friendly time today.’ Indeed, children in the family setting may hear similar invocations and benedictions at inaugurals and other public ceremonies. Twenty-one solemn pieces and invocations to 95 saints were sung by a male soloist and the responses were delivered pitch perfect by a practised congregation. I remember my disbelief when the cell phone on the belt of the man next to me rang during a Yule invocation. The invocation started with a soulful rendition of the prayer song by the younger students of Upasana. The Reverend David Allen, President Allen's brother-in-law, gave the invocation after asking the audience to join in a moment of silence for caregivers and military personnel around the world. True to form, he gave what amounted to a sermon, complete with invocations of god and a biblical quotation. The cycle of weekly liturgies, the daily routine of morning prayer and evening song, and the unceasing invocation of the name of Jesus were intimately connected and interactively life-giving as blood cells in a body. I have to tolerate mandatory formations being opened with an invocation by the chaplain. The local minister who delivered the invocation declared, ‘Thank you, God, for a president who protects our liberty while others cower behind diplomacy.’ A majority of students and parents feel a need to mark graduations with religious invocations. As he ended his sermon with a solemn invocation of the Trinity, the angels (in one version it is the stones of a rocky valley) responded ‘Amen, very venerable Bede.’ A pre-Christmas service was held at the same venue where an invocation prayer was offered. Synonyms prayer, request, intercession, supplication, call, entreaty, solicitation, petition, appeal, suit Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin invocatio(n-), from the verb invocare (see invoke).
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