INVOCATIO  

Emphatic ADDRESS and appeal to gods or divinities.

Hypernym
  • ADDRESSSPEECH ACT of explicitly addressing an audience.
    • SPEECH ACTRHETORICAL TROPE in the form of a deliberate rhetorico-semantic act performed. [This definition is still a tentative stop-gap, and this category is far larger than I would like. It needs to be intelligently subdivided. CH]
      • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
Hyponym
  • IUSIURANDUMINVOCATIO designed as a guarantee of the reliability of a promise.
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