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invocates

invocates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of invocate.

Meaning of invocate

Verb

invocate (third-person singular simple present invocates, present participle invocating, simple past and past participle invocated)

  1. (rare) To implore or invoke.
    • Be thou the tenth Muſe, ten times more in worth / Then thoſe old nine which rimers inuocate, […]1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 38”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
  2. (rare) To conjure up or summon.
    • Poore key-cold Figure of a holy King,
      Pale Aſhes of the Houſe of Lancaſter;
      Thou bloodleſſe Remnant of that Royall Blood,
      Be it lawfull that I inuocate thy Ghoſt,
      To heare the Lamentations of poore Anne,
      Wife to thy Edward, to thy ſlaugthered Sonne,
      Stab'd by the ſelfeſame hand that made theſe...c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

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What is invocates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Invocates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of invocate.

Words near invocates in the dictionary

  1. invocable
  2. invocant
  3. invocants
  4. invocate
  5. invocated
  6. invocates
  7. invocating
  8. invocation
  9. invocational
  10. invocations
  11. invocative

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