Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who evokes: as, the evocator of spirits.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare One who calls forth.
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- noun someone who
evokes - noun medicine a particular
factor that controls themorphogenesis of the earlyembryo ; theinductor
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Examples
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The letter z, recalling the buzzing sound of snoring, is a natural evocator of punchiness.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The letter z, recalling the buzzing sound of snoring, is a natural evocator of punchiness.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The letter z, recalling the buzzing sound of snoring, is a natural evocator of punchiness.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The letter z, recalling the buzzing sound of snoring, is a natural evocator of punchiness.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The evocator, furious, throws him out of the circle.
Là-bas Keene [Translator] Wallace 1877
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An evocator whose name has been lost held a séance with Gilles and de
Là-bas Keene [Translator] Wallace 1877
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In a low voice he recounts how the Devil has risen in the form of a leopard and rushed past without looking at the evocator, without saying a word.
Là-bas Keene [Translator] Wallace 1877
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The fact came home to Gaston that this evocator of
Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance Walter Pater 1866
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But thus dependent to so great a degree on external converse for the best fruit of his own thought, he was also an efficient evocator of the thought of another -- himself an original spirit more than tolerating [87] the originality of others, -- which brought it into play.
Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance Walter Pater 1866
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