Hence, "the use of the Trisagio as a form for invoking the Holy Trinity in dangerous fatal times" (p.
By merely invoking his name or by adoring his saintly relic, and by drinking the water where it is passed, the saint can accomplish thousands of wonders" (p.
And on the monuments which were erected to the dead, some of which are preserved even to this day, epitaphs were inscribed, earnestly invoking for their souls the prayers of the living.
He made a novena to Our Blessed Lady, invoking her help to rid him of the burden and the danger.
Bharat does not intend these curses for any particular person: he merely wishes to prove his own innocence by invoking them on his own head if he had any share in banishing Ráma.
Such words, with happy omens fraught To her dear son she said, Invoking with each eager thought A blessing on his head.
During this tumult Tullia fled from her house, both men and women cursing her wherever she went, and invoking upon her the wrath of the furies, the avengers of parents.
The Initiates at Eleusis commenced, Proclus says, by invoking the two great causes of nature, the Heavens and the Earth, on which in succession they fixed their eyes, addressing to each a prayer.
Otho, whom people previously praised and for whose victory they prayed, they now abused as an enemy, and Vitellius, upon whom they had been invoking curses, they praised and declared emperor.
Finally, the throng jumped down and started to find Commodus (who was then in the Quintilian suburb), invoking many blessings on his head but many curses upon Cleander.
The sorcerer puts the above mentioned substances into the fire, muttering all the while his mantrams invoking the favour of Vira Bhadra or Kandakaruna.
These are performed by cutting off the animal's head before the door of the temple, and invoking the deity to partake of the sacrifice.
A small trench is then excavated in which barley is sown; the ground is irrigated and artificial heat supplied till the grain germinates, when the females join hands and dance round it, invoking the blessings of Gauri on their husbands.
At the end of every couplet they cry 'Jai Ganga' or 'Har Ganga,' invoking the Ganges.
His hands were lifted above his head as if he were invoking the assistance of the Goddess of the Night.
Old friendships must be dissolved, new friendships must not be formed, for fear of invoking the beautiful emotion that 'makes the home.
If those persons who raise the cry of "race suicide" in face of the decline of the birthrate really had the knowledge and intelligence to realize the manifold evils which they are invoking they would deserve to be treated as criminals.
She pardoned them and made a most exemplary end, invoking Christ with her last breath as the garrote was applied.
Arise, therefore, be baptized and washed from thy sins, invoking the name of the Lord.
I never knew any one, who, by invoking him, did not advance exceedingly in virtue: for he assists in a wonderful manner all who address themselves to him.
If, after invoking the vengeance of Heaven upon their souls should they not render a verdict according to the evidence, the jurors are willing to sell their souls, let them decide against us.
The Tibetan prelate presumably wished to give the Emperor what was best and most important in his creed and selected a formula forinvoking a demoniac Buddha.
At Bangkok all officials assemble at the Palace and there drink and sprinkle on their heads water in which swords and other weapons have been dipped thus invoking vengeance on themselves should they prove disloyal.
I may as well tell you it all--shake the load free from my conscience, and ask you to join me ininvoking Heaven's forgiveness.
This continued invoking Heaven's forgiveness excited Tite's curiosity to know something of the old man's strange and wonderful history, for he already began to feel that there was a terrible crime at the bottom of it.
The good Dominie was several times interrupted by some one of the company invoking a blessing on Tite's head.
The time when the custom of invoking the Saints was first countenanced by the Church may be fixed about the end of the fourth century.
In a few more years arose the custom of invoking the spirits supposed to hover near the tombs; some hesitation being implied in the expression 'if they were indeed present, and had any influence in things below.
As proud as if they had conquered the Saracens, they set out on their march, loaded with booty, invoking the heaven they had so cruelly outraged.
Holy See; no one even thought of invoking policy either to moderate or direct the passions which agitated Europe.
The solitary advised the Crusaders to march round Jerusalem, invoking the mercy and protection of Heaven.
Without cessation he was before him, pale, disfigured, dragging his chains, and invoking heaven to take vengeance on the fratricide.
Never,” says Odo of Deuil, “did he pass a single day without hearing mass, and without invoking the God of the Christians.
Besides which, invoking the blessed Virgin, he would say, Monstra te esse Matrem!
So he went back to the road, mounted his horse, and rode on without vouchsafing a word of farewell to the woman who was invoking destruction upon his head.
While there is no clear strophical arrangement, there are four broadly distinguished parts: a prelude, invoking God to hearken (vv.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "invoking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
