exorcise
verb (used with object)
to seek to expel (an evil spirit) by adjuration or religious or solemn ceremonies.
exorciser
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a word derived from
exorcise.
Example Sentences
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A shrill whistle was heard, and then another, and the police director laid his hand on the shoulder of the exorciser accompanied with the remark:— "You are in custody."
From Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories by Julian Hawthorne
In the county clerk's office in Charlestown, Jefferson county, West Virginia, can be seen the deed made by Livingstone and wife to Denis Cahill, the supposed exorciser of the fiend.
From The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry With Legends of the Surrounding Country by Joseph Barry
The individual having been bewitched by means of certain herbs concocted probably into potions, other herbs are prepared by the exorciser as an antidote.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow
In these tragi-comedies the exorciser represented God, or at any rate the Archangel, overthrowing the dragon.
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet
The natural and indeed necessary complement to the priest as exorciser is the priest as the forecaster of the future.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow
