Invocate

How can Barack Obama, the first black president of the United States of America, invite one of the most divisive religious leaders in the world to invocate his inauguration? ❋ Unknown (2010)

But, since you invocate austers for the trailing of vixens, I would like to send a cormorant around this blue lagoon. ❋ Unknown (2006)

“Advise now, you that think it folly to invocate Neptune in tempest.” ❋ Unknown (2003)

But would you not hold it expedient, before we proceed any further, that we should invocate Hercules and the Tenetian goddesses who in the chamber of lots are said to rule, sit in judgment, and bear a presidential sway? ❋ Unknown (2002)

Today, you remain in awe of the Dow and its throbbing green aura, but, like Grandma Mati running laps around her rosary beads, you have come to invocate its pantheon by rote. ❋ Robbins, Tom (1994)

In the cry of the saints unto the Lord for the execution of his judgments and vengeance, they in an especial manner invocate his holiness, Rev. vi. ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)

Him in whom we believe, we ought to adore and invocate. ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)

It is the Father unto whom we have our access, whom we peculiarly invocate; as it is expressed, chap. iii. ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)

Wherefore, it being our duty, as hath been proved, to invocate the name of ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)

And so to adore or invocate any in whom we ought not to believe, is idolatry. ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)

Holy Spirit as proceeding from them both — we do formally invocate and call on the divine nature, and consequently the whole Trinity, and each person therein. ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)

For prayer without an ascription of divine excellencies — as omniscience, omnipresence, and almighty power — unto him whom we invocate, is but vain babbling, that hath nothing of the nature of true prayer in it; and to make such ascriptions unto him who by nature is not God, is idolatrous. ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)

But in the invocation of God the Father we invocate every person; because we invocate the Father as God, every person being so. ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)

Powers, I humbly invocate your gracious Pardon, because he did it through an Excess of Rage, to one whom he Imagin'd had been false. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

God, often long for God, invocate and call upon God daily in Prayer; they themselves (according to the Apostle) being the living Temple of God, and his true Habitation, since their Soul is the Seat and Throne of God, where he continually rests. ❋ Unknown (1907)

Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, he has borrowed much from De Baif and Pierre de Brach, sonnetteers with whom it was a convention to invocate 'O Sommeil chasse-soin.' ❋ Sidney Lee (1892)

But the Scripture teacheth not to invocate saints, or to ask help of saints, because it propoundeth unto us one Christ the Mediator, ❋ Unknown (1889)

Especially, when (as we this day) sensible of our infirmity, and of an unfaithful heart not steady with our God, but apt to start from the cause, if we feel the knife or the fire; who bind ourselves with cords, as a sacrifice to the horns of the altar; we invocate the name of the great ❋ Various (1876)

[Dude shut up], they're [invocating]. ❋ HurricaneAndrew (2009)

Person 1: "[Wanna play] [Genius Invocation TCG]?" Person 2: "Na, I'm still doing the [arcon] quests" ❋ Aperson12345678910 (2022)