invocatory
- 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
And there was nothing but invocatory cries, Mad impulses, prayers and vows that cleave The arch�d skies, And sudden yearning to create new gods, In order to believe.
From The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets by Various
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 Thornbury, Walter
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 Nadin, Mihai
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 Fuller, Henry Blake
