invite 
company, or action of; summon because of de- 
sire, favor, or courtesy : as, to inritc a, friend to 
illimrr: tn mrili one to clmiee. 
Abaulum liHtl sheepshearers In liaal hazor, . . . ii'l u> 
salom iiirilnl M thu king's sons. 2 Sum. xiti. -;. 
Nil noontide bell invites the country round. 
//, Moral Essays, 111. 190. 
Not to the danco that dreadful voice invite*, 
It calls to death, and all the rage of tight* 
Pope, Iliad, xv. 600. 
They . . . entered Into an association, and the city of 
London was invited to accede. 
Goldsmith, Hist England, xv. 
2. To present allurement or incitement to; draw 
on or induce by temptation; solicit; incite. 
Yet have they many baits and guileful spclli, 
To Inveigle and invite the unwary sense 
Of them that pass unwoeting by the way. 
Miltini, < 'onius, 1. 538. 
I saw nothing In this country that could invite me to a 
longer continuance. Strijt, Gulliver's Travels, Hi. 6. 
To resent his | Frederic's] affronts was perilous ; yet not 
to resent them was to deserve and to invite them. 
Macaulay, Frederic the Great. 
The outside stations will be the first to invite the sav- 
ages, and If too far away we shall not know of the attack 
nor be able to come to the rescue. 
Harper'1 Hay., LXXVI. 428. 
=Syn. 1. Convoke, Bid, etc. See cofli. 
ft. intrans. To offer invitation or entice- 
ment; attract. 
Come, Myrrha, let us on to the Euphrates ; 
The hour invites, the galley is prepared. 
Byron, Sardauapalus, i. 2. 
invite (in-vif), . [(.invite, v.] An invitation. 
[Now only colloq.] 
The Lamprey swims to his Lord's incite*. 
Sandys, Travalles, p. 305. 
Adepts In every little meanness or contrivance likely to 
bring about an Invitation (or, as they call It with equal 
good taste, an incite). T. Hook, Man of Many Friends. 
Quest after guest arrived ; the invite* had been excel- 
lently arranged. Dickens, Sketches, Steam Excursion. 
invitement (in-vit'ment), . [< OF. invitement 
= It. iiiritamento, < L.' invitamentum, invitation, 
< invitare, invite : see invite.] If. The act of in- 
viting; invitation. 
Nor would 1 wish any invitement of states or friends. 
Chapman. 
A fair invitement to a solemn feast. 
Massinger, Unnatural Combat, ii. 1. 
2. Enticement; allurement; temptation. [Rare.] 
The little creature . . . was unable to resist the deli- 
cious invitement to repose which he there saw exhibited. 
Lamb, Ella, p. 189. 
inviter (iu-vl'ter), . One who invites. 
Friend with friend, th' inviter and the guest 
llarte, Supposed Epistle from Boetius to his Wile. 
iuyitiate (in-vish'i-at), a. [< in- 3 + vitiate, a.] 
Not vitiated ; uncontaminated ; pure. 
Hers shall be 
The invitiatc firstlings of experience. 
Lowell, The Cathedral. 
inviting (in-v!'ting), . [Verbal u. of invite, 
.] 1. The act of giving an invitation. 2. 
An invitation. [Rare.] 
He hath sent me an earnest inviting. 
Shak., T. of A., 111. 6, 11. 
inviting (iu-vi'ting), p. a. [Ppr. of invite. v.] 
Alluring; tempting; attractive: as, an inviting 
prospect. 
A cold bath, at such an hour and under such auspices, 
was anything but inviting. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, 1. 144. 
You cannot leave us now, 
We must not part at this inviting hour. 
Wordsworth, Excursion, v. 
invitingly (in-vi'ting-li), adv. In an inviting 
manner ; so as to attract ; attractively. 
If he can but dress up a temptation to look invitingly, 
the business Is done. Decay of Christian Piety, p. 123. 
inyitingness (in-vl'ting-nes), i. The quality 
of being inviting; attractiveness. 
Elegant flowers of speech, to which the nature and re- 
semblances of things, as well as human fancies, have an 
aptitude and inviting new. 
Jer. Taylor (?), Artlf. Handsomeness, p. 165. 
invitrifiable (in-vit'ri-fi-a-bl), . [< - 3 + "'- 
ri liable.] Incapable of being vitrified. See vit- 
rilinlilf. riti'iiicution. 
invocate (in'vo-kat), v. ; pret.andpp. imocated, 
ppr. hiroctttint/. [< L. iiiroctitun, pp. of invocare, 
call upon: see inroke.] I. trans. To call on or 
for in supplication ; invoke. 
Be it lawful that I invocate thy ghost 
To hear the lamentations of poor Anne. 
Shalt.. Rich. III.,!. 2, a 
Look in mine eye, 
There you shall see dim grief swimming in tears 
Invooating succour. Lust's Dominion, ii. 3. 
II. t intninx. To call as in supplication. 
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Some call on heaven, some invocate on hell. 
\nl fates and furies with their woe* acmmitit. 
Drayton, Idea No. 39. 
invocation (in-vo-ka'shon), n. [= F. i 
= 1'r. iiiructii-io, invocation = Sp. invocation = 
Pg. incocac&o = It. invocazione, < L. invocti- 
tio(n-), < inrocare, call upon: see iuroki , tuni- 
cate.] 1. The act of invoking or calling in 
prayer; the form or act of summoning or in- 
viting presence or aid: as, invocation of the 
Muses. 
"Tis a Greek invocation to call fools Into a circle. 
Shot., As you Like it, ii. :,, 61. 
There Is in religion no acceptable duty which devout 
invocation of the name of (lod doth not either presuppose 
or infer. Hooker, Eccles. Polity. 
Any fustian invocations, captain, will servo as well as 
the best, so you rant them out well. The Puritan, ill. 4. 
2. In law, a judicial call, demand, or order: as, 
the invocationot papers or evidence into a court. 
3. Eecles.: (a) An invoking of the blessing 
of God upon any undertaking; especially, an 
opening prayer in a public service invoking di- 
vine blessing upon it; specifically, the words 
"In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. 
Amen," " In the name of the Father, and of the 
Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen," used at 
the beginning of the Roman mass, before ser- 
mons in many Anglican churches, and on other 
occasions. (6) The third part of the prayer of 
consecration in the communion office of the 
American Book of Common Prayer, in the 
Scottish office of 1764 (from which that prayer 
is derived), and in the Nonjurors' office or 1718, 
on which, as well as on earlier Scottish and 
English offices and ancient Oriental liturgies, 
the Scottish office of 1764 is based, it follows the 
Institution and the oblation, and invokes God the Father 
to send down the Holy .-pint on the encharistic elements 
and on the communicants. A similar form of Invocation 
(wiriest*), on which this is modeled, is found In the same 
sequence in almost all the more important primitive lit- 
urgies, and some authorities claim that It was originally 
universal. It Is wanting, however, in the Roman Missal 
and In the present English Book of Common Prayer. In 
the first Prayer-book (1549) the Invocation preceded the 
institution, (c) In the Roman Catholic and Angli- 
can litanies, one of the petitions addressed to 
God in each person and in the Trinity, and to 
the saints. The Invocations are the first of the four main 
divisions of petitions In these litanies, the others being 
deprecation* (with obsecrations), intercessions, and supplica- 
tions. The response to the Invocations addressed to God 
Is " Miserere nobls," " Have mercy upon us," to which the 
Anglican Prayer-book adds "miserable sinners." The 
response to the Invocations addressed to saints is "Ora 
(or Orate) pro nobls" ("Pray for us"). The Invocations to 
saints are omitted in the Anglican litany. Invocation 
of saints, in the Roman Catholic, the Greek, and other 
Christian churches, the act or practice of mentioning in 
prayer, asking the prayers of, or addressing prayers to 
angels or departed saints, In order to obtain their Inter- 
cession with God. 
invocatory (in-vok'a-to-ri), a. [= F. inroca- 
toire = Sp. Pg. It. invocatorio; as invocate + 
-ory.] Making invocation; invoking. 
invoice (in'vois), . [Prob. < F. envois, pi. of 
envoi, OF. envoy, a sending, conveyance (lettre 
A'envoi, an invoice) : seeent'oy 1 .] In com., a writ- 
ten account of the particulars of merchandise 
shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, fac- 
tor, etc., with the value or prices and charges 
annexed. The word does not carry a necessary implica- 
tion of ownership. In United States revenue law, an in- 
voice sent from abroad is required to be made in triplicate 
and signed and dated by the seller of the merchandise de- 
scribed therein, and subsequently verified by the Ameri- 
can consul or commercial agent of the I'nited States in the 
port or country of shipment. The three Invoices are clas- 
sified as the original, or Importer's, the duplicate, which Is 
retained by the consul who verified it, and the triplicate, 
which Is forwarded to the collector of the port to which 
the merchandise is consigned. 
What English Merchant soever should pass through the 
Sound, It should be sufficient for him to register an In- 
voice of his Cargazon In the Custom-house Book, and give 
his Bond to pay all duties at his return. 
Homll. Letters, I. vl. 5. 
The clerk on the high stool at the long mahogany desk 
behind the railing, hardly lifting his eyes from a heap of 
invoices before him. W. X. Bolter, New Timothy, p. 148. 
Pro forma invoice. See pro forma, 
invoice (in'vois), v. t. ; pret. and pp. invoiced, 
ppr. invoicing. [< invoice, n.] To write or en- 
ter in an invoice ; make an invoice of. 
Goods, wares, and merchandise Imported from Norway. 
and invoiced in the current dollar of Norway. Madison. 
invoice-book (in'vois-buk), ". A book in which 
invoices are coied. 
invoke (in-vok'), >' '; pret. and pp. i 
[< F. ivoquer = Sp. Pg. 
= It. inrocare, < L. inrocare, call upon, < in, in, 
on, + i-ociire. call: see rocal. Cf. aroki . fun- 
rote, evoke, provoke, revoke.] 1. To address 
involucrum 
in supplication : e;ill on fur pr<iteelinii or aid: 
as, to iiinil,- the Supreme licin^: to inrnh- tin- 
Muses. 
Whilst I inviikt the lx>rd, whose power shall mo defend. 
Surrey, Ps. Ixxlil. 
To this oath they iliil nut intake nny celestial divinity, 
or divine attribute, but only called to witness the river 
Styx. Bacon, Political Fables, II. 
2. To call for with earnest desire ; make suppli- 
cation or prayer for: as, to invoke God's mercy. 
No storm-tost sailor sighs for slumbering real, 
He dreads the tempest, but invoke* the breeie. 
Crabbe, The Library. 
The King of the Netherlands invoked the mediation of 
the five powers. Wooltey, Introd. to Inter. Law, f 4U. 
3. In lair, to call for judicially: as, to invoke 
depositions or evidence. =Byn. 1 and 2. To implore, 
supplicate, adjure, solicit, beseech. 
invoker (in-vo'ker), n. One who invokes. 
All respectable names, but none of them will In the 
long run save its invoker. 
M. Arnold, Schools and Universities, p. 27.1. 
involatile(in-yora-til), a. [< t'n-3 + r<ilnlilr.\ 
Not volatile ; incapable of being vaporized. 
The ash or involatile constituents of wine. 
Encyc. Brit., t 173. 
involublet (in-vol'u-bl), . [< i- 3 + voluble.] 
Not turning or changing; unchangeable; im- 
mutable. 
Even Thee, the Cause of Causes, 
Sourseofall, . . . 
Infallible, involute, insensible. 
Sylvester, Little Bartas (trans.), t 161. 
involucel (in-vol'u-sel), . [= F. involucellc = 
Pg. involucello, < NL. involucellum, dim. of I'M- 
volucrum, involucre: see involucre.] In hot., a 
secondary involucre in a compound cluster of 
flowers, as in many of the Umbelliferce. See cut 
under inflorescence (fig. 9). 
involucella, . Plural of involucellum. 
involucellate (in-vol-u-sel'at), a. [< involu- 
cel(l) + -ate 1 .] Having involucels. 
involucellum (in-vol-u-sel'um), .; pi. involu- 
cella (-&). [NL.] Same as involucel. 
involucra, n. Plural of inrolucrum. 
involucral (in'vo-lu-kral), a. [< involucre + 
-al.] Pertaining to an involucre or to an in- 
volucrum, or having an involucrum. 
Involucratae (in-vol-u-kra't), n. pi. [NL. 
(Hooker and Baker, 1868), fern. pi. of involu- 
cratus, involucrate: see involucrate.] A divi- 
sion of polypodiaceous ferns, containing those 
tribes which have the son or fruit-dots fur- 
nished with an involucre or indusium. 
involucrate (in-vo-lu'krat), a. [< NL. itirolu- 
cratus, < involucrum, involucre : see involucre.] 
Having an involucre. 
involucre (in'vo-lu-ker), . [= F. involucre = 
Sp. Pg. It. involu- 
cro, < NL. involu- 
crum, < L. intolrere, 
roll up, wrap up: 
see involve.] 1. In 
bot., any collection 
of bracts round a 
cluster of flowers. 
In umbelliferous plants 
It consists of separate 
narrow bracts placed In 
a single whorl ; In many 
composite plants these 
organs are Imbricated 
In several rows. In 
some species of Cornus, 
many Labiata, and other 
plants, the Involucre is 
white or variously col* 
"led, constituting the 
showy part of the flow- 
er. (See cat) The same name is given also to the super- 
incumbent covering or indnsium of the sort of ferns. (See 
indwium, 2.) In some species of Equinrtmn the Involucre 
is the aunnluft or annular girdle situated between the up- 
permost whorl of leaf-sheaths and the whorl of sporan- 
giferoua scales. (Bennett and Murray, Crypt. Bot, p. 110.) 
In the Hepatica it is the sheath immediately surround- 
ing the female sexual organs, originating as an outgrowth 
of the plant-body. In marine algte it consists of the ra- 
mnll subtending a conceptacle. forming a more or less per- 
fect whorl around It. (Harvey, Brit. Marine Algas, Glos- 
sary.) 
2. In anat., a membranous envelop, as the peri- 
cardium. 3. In fool., an involucrum. 
involncred (in'vo-lu-kerd), a. In hot., having 
an involucre, as umbels, etc. 
involucret (in-vo-lu'kret), n. [< involucre + 
-ct.] An involucel. 
involucriform (in-vo-lu'kri-form), a. [< NL. 
involucrum, involucre, + ii-forma, shape.] Re- 
sembling an involucre. Thomas, Med. Diet. 
involucrum (in-vd-lu'krum), .; pi. invnlncra 
(-kra). [NL., < L. involucrum, that in which 
something is wrapped, < inrolrere, wrap up: see 
Involucre subtendln&r the clutter of 
flowers of Flowering Dogwood i Car- 
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