invocator

English

Etymology

invocate +‎ -or

Noun

invocator (plural invocators)

1. One who invocates the spirits of the dead.
   • 2007, Gary Gygax, The Anubis Murders, →ISBN, page 21:

     The five others nearby likewise made ready to serve as invocators—instruments and voices harrumphing as would a body of minstrels in preparation for some performance.

   • 2012, Christine Ferguson, Determined Spirits, →ISBN, page 77:

     The reports of xenoglossic phenomena typically rely on two primary assumptions: first, that the linguistic abilities of the eminent dead remain static (and so stylistically recognisable) in the spheres; and second, that those of their typically working-class invocators were unimprovable in life, so much so that cheating would be impossible.

   • 2014, Susan Brigden, London and the Reformation, →ISBN:

     The woman who implored Our Lady to help Joan Sampson in her labour Joan spat upon and set away, and at another woman's childbed she 'contumeliously spoke against the invocators.

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) invocātor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of invocō
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of invocō