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Princeton's WordNet

  1. exorcistnoun

    one of the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church

  2. exorcist, exorcisernoun

    someone who practices exorcism

Wiktionary

  1. exorcistnoun

    A person, especially a priest, who practices exorcism.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Exorcistnoun

    Etymology: ἐξοϱϰιστὴς.

    Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits. Acts xix. 13.

    Soul of Rome!
    Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjur’d up
    My mortified spirit. William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar.

    Is there no exorcist
    Beguiles the truer office of mine eyes?
    Is’t real that I see? William Shakespeare, All’s well that ends well.

Wikipedia

  1. Exorcist

    In some religions, an exorcist (from the Greek „ἐξορκιστής“) is a person who is believed to be able to cast out the devil or performs the ridding of demons or other supernatural beings who are alleged to have possessed a person, or (sometimes) a building or even an object. An exorcist can be a specially prepared or instructed person including: priest, a nun, a monk, a witch doctor (healer), a shaman, a psychic or a geomancer (Feng shui - Chinese geomancy).

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  1. exorcist

    An exorcist is an individual who has the ability to, or claims to have the ability to, cast out, expel or remove benign or malevolent spirits or demons from a person or place. This person may be officially sanctioned by a religious institution, such as the Roman Catholic Church, or may operate outside established religious bodies.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Exorcistnoun

    one who expels evil spirits by conjuration or exorcism

  2. Exorcistnoun

    a conjurer who can raise spirits

  3. Etymology: [L. exorcista, Gr. 'exorkisth`s: cf. F. exorciste.]

Wikidata

  1. Exorcist

    In some religions, an exorcist is a person who is believed to be able to cast out the devil or other demons. A priest, a nun, a monk, a healer, a shaman or other specially prepared or instructed person can be an exorcist. An exorcist is a person who performs the ridding of demons or other supernatural beings who are alleged to have possessed a person, or a building or even an object.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Exorcist in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Exorcist in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Exorcist in a Sentence

  1. Scott C. Holstad:

    I am my own power, my own home with blackened roses gaping at softened slashed easy chairs, furled requiems of silence, yet strength too -- of poetry, of the books, of the gods. I am my Own and I intend to be the keeper of My truth, the slayer of My dragons, the Exorcist of My demons.

  2. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

    The reason Republicans hate me so much is because I confront them directly. Their moral -- their lack of moral grounding on so many issues, and, not just that, but the reason they are so upset, and they act like that girl in The Exorcist thats like vomiting pea soup, thats like them and negativity.

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