evocatory

Of language and writing, considered as magical operations, evocatory magic.

Intimate Journals 1949

Dame, the fête of Saint-Napoléon, or was any ever more immortalised, as we say, than this one was to be by the wonderfully ample and vivid picture of it in the Eugène Rougon of Emile Zola, who must have taken it in, on the spot, as a boy of about our own number of years, though of so much more implanted and predestined an evocatory gift?

A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879