invocation
noun
the act of invoking or calling upon a deity, spirit, etc., for aid, protection, inspiration, or the like; supplication.
invocatory
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a word derived from
invocation.
Example Sentences
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Five hundred dark-coated figures crowded their way down a crooked street in the Himmel-pfortgrund, stopped before an empty house tucked away there, hummed an invocatory pitch and sang the Serenade of Franz Peter Schubert.
From Time Magazine Archive
About evening the wind rose, after much invocatory whistling, many prayers, many curses.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury
He gave an invocatory sweep with his brush, and the spirit of complete modernity descended and perched upon the top of his easel.
From With the Procession by Henry Blake Fuller
The writings that make up Veda are: Rig Veda, invocatory science; Yajur Veda, sacrificial; Sama Veda, melody; Atharva Veda, of incantation.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
There were two dialects in ancient Sumeria, and the invocatory hymns were composed in what was known as "the women's language".
From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald Alexander Mackenzie
