Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who invokes.
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- noun One who
calls upon (a person, especially agod ) forhelp ,assistance orguidance . - noun One who
appeals for validation to a (notably cited)authority . - noun One who
conjures up spirits withincantations . - noun Someone who
induces as an inevitable consequence. - noun One who
solicits , petitions for,appeals to a favorable attitude. - noun computing That which causes a
program orsubroutine to execute.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Each will enable its invoker to as - sume the likeness of his companion.
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And, the supreme irony is that Giuliani is the most frequent invoker of 9/11 on the campaign trail.
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Dahmer's hospitalization, assuming he got out of B-Wing, would not be much like that of the country's best-known invoker of insanity-John Hinckley, the man who tried to assassinate President Reagan in 1981.
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Rearranging details to paint a more understandable, agreeable or simply useful version of reality--well, that's what writers do, and I'm a frequent invoker of "the larger truth" of a situation.
Archive 2008-05-01 Flavia 2008
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Rearranging details to paint a more understandable, agreeable or simply useful version of reality--well, that's what writers do, and I'm a frequent invoker of "the larger truth" of a situation.
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2008
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For openers, there are more important things to worry about than having a person with some wrong-headed views about some subjects as an invoker of blessings from the Almighty.
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You've been the invoker of great stories, the provocation for much laughter, and the needed companion when I just don't know what to do with the extra money in my pockets.
A letter from Alcohol's biggest fan! The Eternal Postdoc 2007
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You've been the invoker of great stories, the provocation for much laughter, and the needed companion when I just don't know what to do with the extra money in my pockets.
Archive 2007-03-01 The Eternal Postdoc 2007
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It was not a ritual to be entered into frivolously, as the curse, once uttered, had to fall somewhere, and if undeserved by the intended recipient, would recoil on the invoker.
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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(God enabling you, who never fails the true penitent, and sincere invoker,) to be an heir of a blessed immortality.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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