evocation (evokashon)

[=OF. evocacion, F. évocation = Pr. evocatio = Sp. evocacion = Pg. evocação = It. evocazione, Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., Pref. He had called up spirits, by his evocation , more formidable than he looked for or could lay. De Quincey , Homer, i. If emotion, with him, infallibly resolves itself into memory, so memory is an evocation of throbs and thrills. H. James, Jr., The Century, XXXV. 871. 2. In civil law , the removal of a suit from an inferior to a superior tribunal. 2044