invocational

Invocational media are communication technologies based on digital computers.

But so does the poet, whose invocational rhythm and rhetoric present him in the enchanter's role.

The poem is in Whitman's effusive invocational vein.

This was the "inspiration," as it was listed in the agenda, a Santa Monica substitute for an invocational prayer.

The theory of invocational media identifies the event of invocation as the defining feature (or force) of digital computing.

The first event was the now defunct "Invocational" which started a tradition of annual gatherings in honor of the Bizarre.

Prayers are primarily invocational, calling upon and celebrating Ahura Mazda and his good essence that runs through all things.

Finally, third order invocations are the concepts invoked to hold together invocational platforms: such as the metaphors of virtual reality, artificial intelligence, business information system, etc.

The words are Sanskrit, the ancient invocational tongue of India, and the repetitive melodies stimulate a trancelike mental openness.

By this theory, invocational events (invocationary acts) should be considered to be conditions for the formal and mathematical principles by which invocations are composed, and not vice-versa.

Chesher, Chris (2001) Computers as invocational media, Unpublished PhD thesis, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

In an archaic Roman prayer, Maia appears as an attribute of Vulcan, in an invocational list of male deities paired with female abstractions representing some aspect of their functionality.

They have also highlighted the differences between magic within Wicca, which is invocational and derives from the divine powers, and that depicted by the Harry Potter books, which is a purely mechanical application of spells without invoking any deities.

Granger holds, contrary to several Christian critics of the series - including Brjit Kjos and Richard Abanes - that the books' magic is incantational rather than invocational, and, as such, require and support a Christian worldview rather than undermine it.

Granger argues that the books do not promote the occult because none of the magic is based on summoning any sort of demon or spirit; he contrasts occult invocational magic (calling up spirit beings to do your bidding) with literature's common incantational magic (saying a set phrase to use power from an unspecified source).