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 higher mode of belief is the best exorciser, because it makes the spiritual at one with the actual world instead of hostile, or at best alien.
From Among My Books First Series by James Russell Lowell
It is interesting to note that the woman appears as the exorciser of the disease.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow
With the function of prophecy they combined the office of physician or rather of exorciser.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Sir James George Frazer
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
The Church could not have influenced the world as she has done, had she been nothing more than a healer of diseases and an exorciser of demons.
From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer
