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Exorcist   /ˈɛksərsəst/   Listen
Exorcist

noun
1.
One of the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church.
2.
Someone who practices exorcism.  Synonym: exorciser.





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"Exorcist" Quotes from Famous Books



... characteristic humour in Tertullian's story of the Christian woman who went to the theatre and came back from it possessed with a devil, and the devil's crushing reply, In meo eam inveni, to the expostulation of the exorcist; a nobler passion rings in his pleading against the butcheries of the amphitheatre, "Do you wish to see blood? Behold Christ's!" His declamations against worldly luxury and ornament in the sumptuous pages of the De Cultu Feminarum are not more sweeping ...
— Latin Literature • J. W. Mackail


Words linked to "Exorcist" :   sorcerer, thaumaturge, magician, thaumaturgist, holy order, order, exorcism, wizard, necromancer


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