v. 25B6; verb
he invoked his statutory rights : CITE, refer to, adduce, instance; resort to, have recourse to, turn to.
I invoked the Madonna : PRAY TO, call on, appeal to, supplicate, entreat, solicit, beg, implore; poetic/literary beseech.
invoking the spirits : SUMMON, call (up), conjure (up).
middle-class moralities invoke peculiar anxieties : BRING FORTH, bring out, elicit, induce, cause, kindle.