invoke

invoke (http://definr.com/invoke)

     v 1: evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic: "raise the
          specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the
          air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from
          the mountain" [syn: raise, conjure, conjure up, stir,
           call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, {call
          forth}]
     2: cite as an authority: "He invoked the law that would save
        him"; "I appealed to the law of 1900" [syn: appeal]