(~s, invoking, ~d)
1.
If you ~ a law, you state that you are taking a particular action because that law allows or tells you to.
The judge ~d an international law that protects refugees.
VERB: V n
2.
If you ~ something such as a principle, a saying, or a famous person, you refer to them in order to support your argument.
He ~d memories of Britain’s near-disastrous disarmament in the 1930s...
VERB: V n
3.
If something such as a piece of music ~s a feeling or an image, it causes someone to have the feeling or to see the image. Many people consider this use to be incorrect.
The music ~d the wide open spaces of the prairies.
= evoke
VERB: V n