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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Night being a favorite time for the recital of the incantations, it was natural that the orb of night, the god Sin, should be added to the pantheon of the exorciser.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow
The exorciser would have no difficulty in threading his way through the complicated mass.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow
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
A Mass John Scott, minister of Peebles, is reported to have been the last renowned exorciser, and to have lost his life in a contest with an obstinate spirit.
From Minstrelsy of the Scottish border, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott
The section closes with the ordinary request of the exorciser to the victim: "Recite this incantation."
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow
