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invocare [CL] 1 to summon. b (~avit me or ~avit, beginning of introit for first Sunday in Lent, by metonymy for the day itself). pulsatur duabus campanis, una ad ~andum, altera ad inchoandum Beleth RDO 86. 90.  b ad diem Martis post ~avit me FormMan I 22; Dominicis, sc., Ad te levavi, Circumdederunt, ~avit, Letare, et in Ramis et in Albis, v sint scutelle Reg. Pri. Worc. 127a; proxima post †Invicit [? l. ~avit] Ib. 127b. 2 to call upon, invoke: a (God, His name or mercy); b (interceding saint or his power); c (sacred object); d (doc. as leg. evidence); e (absol. or intr.). a ~antes divinae auxilium pietatis Bede HE IV 24 p. 266; per te ~abam Dominum Felix Guthl. 52 p. 164; 1189 Deum testem ~o J. Exon. Ep. 1. 21; monet ut, pari voto, unanimi consensu, Domini misericordiam ~arent Found. Waltham 5; c1211 testem tamen illum ~amus, cui nuda et aperta sunt omnia [cf. Hebr. iv 13], quod ‥ Gir. Ep. 6 p. 226; pro te Dominus preces meas audivit ut invoces nomen ejus ‥ V. Edm. Rich C 594.  b Nunnam. 87 (v. exaudire 2b); tunc vero erat videre virtutem virginis quam ~averat, et cujus auxilio huc evaserat Gosc. Transl. Mild. 23.  c quemdam civium ‥ eam [sc. crucem] solam testem et quasi sponsorem ~asse Gir. TH II 44.  d 1297 ~avit rotulos ad warentum CourtR Hales 372.  e †inpluraberis [l. imploraveris], ~aberis GlC I 64; Ælf. Ep. 2. 118 (v. energumenus b); omnis ~ans cupit audiri Prov. Durh. 39; 1549 vetus et receptus ~andi modus Conc. Scot. II 116.

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