invoke

Verb

• request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection
  • appeal to somebody for help
    
  • Invoke God in times of trouble
    

• cite as an authority; resort to
  • He invoked the law that would save him
    
  • I appealed to the law of 1900
    
  • She invoked an ancient law
    

• summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
  • raise the specter of unemployment
    
  • he conjured wild birds in the air
    
  • call down the spirits from the mountain