"invocator" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2007, Gary Gygax, The Anubis Murders, page 21",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2012, Christine Ferguson, Determined Spirits, page 77",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2014, Susan Brigden, London and the Reformation",
          "text": "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.",
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        "One who invocates the spirits of the dead."
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  "word": "invocator"
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          "text": "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.",
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