invoke

To call on (a higher power) for assistance, support, or inspiration.

To appeal to or cite in support or justification.

To call for earnestly; solicit.

To summon with incantations; conjure.

To resort to; use or apply.

To activate or start (a program, for example).

To address in supplication; call on for protection or aid: as, to invoke the Supreme Being; to invoke the Muses.

To call for with earnest desire; make supplication or prayer for: as, to invoke God’s mercy.

In law, to call for judicially: as, to invoke depositions or evidence.

To call on for aid or protection; to invite earnestly or solemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand by invocation; to implore.