reinvoke

English

Etymology

re- +‎ invoke

Verb

reinvoke (third-person singular simple present reinvokes, present participle reinvoking, simple past and past participle reinvoked)

  1. (transitive) To invoke again.
    • 1984, Richard Stallman, Lisp machine manual‎, page 735:
      Reinvokes the function in the current frame (restart its execution at the beginning), optionally changing the arguments.
    • 1994, Jody Messler Davies, Treating The Adult Survivor Of Childhood Sexual Abuse‎, →ISBN:
      Such perceived helplessness on the part of the therapist reinvokes the image of the ineffectual parent who could do nothing to protect her child from extreme forms of abuse.
    • 2006, Nicholas Davey, Unquiet Understanding: Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics‎, →ISBN:
      He reinvokes the value of experientially acquired wisdom (paideia).
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