Definition of "invocatory" []

• Of or having the nature of an invocation. (adjective)

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• "Ms. Franks, who had assumed her seat at the piano, struck an invocatory chord."
• "I smiled, expecting the crowd to laugh; yet there was something terrible about his blind, invocatory figure, and no one did."
• "In Ireland a plan for reclaiming the child carried away by the Fairies was to take the Fairy's changeling and place it on the top of a dunghill, and then to chant certain invocatory lines beseeching the Fairies to restore the stolen child."