invocator

invocate +‎ -or

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.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /in.u̯oˈkaː.tor/, [ɪnu̯ɔˈkäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.voˈka.tor/, [iɱvoˈkäːt̪or]

invoc(ō) (“I invoke, call upon”) +‎ -tor (“-er”, agent noun suffix)

invocātor m (genitive invocātōris); third declension

1. (Late Latin) summoner, evoker

Third-declension noun.

• Italian: invocatore
• Spanish: invocador

• invocator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

invocātor

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