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Conjures vs Invoker - What's the difference?

conjures | invoker |

As a verb conjures

is .

As a noun invoker is

one who calls upon (a person, especially a god) for help, assistance or guidance.

conjures

English

Verb

(head)
  • (conjure)
    • ----

    conjure

    English

    Verb

    (conjur)
  • To perform magic tricks.
  • To summon up using supernatural power, as a devil
  • To practice black magic.
  • To evoke.
  • To imagine or picture in the mind.
  • To make an urgent request to; to appeal to or beseech.
  • * Addison
    • I conjure you, let him know, / Whate'er was done against him, Cato did it.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
    • Stammering out something, I knew not what, I rolled away from him against the wall, and then conjured him, whoever or whatever he might be, to keep quiet, and let me get up and light the lamp again.
  • (obsolete) To conspire or plot.
  • * Milton
    • Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons / Conjured against the Highest.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (African American Vernacular English) A practice of magic; hoodoo; conjuration.

    • Derived terms

    * conjurer / conjuror * conjure up * conjure with * name to conjure with

    Related terms

    * conjuration ----

    invoker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who calls upon (a person, especially a god) for help, assistance or guidance.
    • An invoker of God's mercy
  • One who appeals for validation to a (notably cited) authority.
  • One who conjures up spirits with incantations.
  • Someone who induces as an inevitable consequence.
  • One who solicits, petitions for, appeals to a favorable attitude.
  • (computing) That which causes a program or subroutine to execute.