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verb

To call up or summon forth memories or feelings; to elicit, draw forth; to summon.

Railroad iron is a magician’s rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson Speech, Boston, Massachusetts, February 7, 1844

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