a. [ad. late L. ēvocātōrius, f. ēvocāre: see EVOCATE and -ORY.] Having the function of evoking or calling forth.
a. 1711. Ken, Psyche, Poet. Wks. 1721, IV. 266. Satan … Saw an old Clinick breathing out his last, And his evocatory Fiends enjoin’d Whom he to tare away his Soul assign’d.
1817. trans. Dubois’ Mann. People India, xi. They [Mantras] are of various sorts, invocatory, evocatory, deprecatory, conservatory.
