exorcist

“You often see the exorcist portrayed looking as evil as the possessed,” he says.

Benet, ben′et, n. an exorcist, the third of the four lesser orders in the Roman Church.

It may be added that many weak-minded persons feared the sorcerer more than they confided in the exorcist.

When a Malayan exorcist is engaged in propitiating a demon, a fowl is sometimes waved before him, and decapitated.

An exorcist technically so called, when formally ordained, is only in minor and not in holy or sacred orders.

The sick man still groaned and sighed, and said he desired to be a Christian, and wished them to call in a priest and an exorcist.