(v. t.) To cast out, as a devil, evil spirits, etc., by conjuration or summoning by a holy name, or by certain ceremonies; to expel (a demon) or to conjure (a demon) to depart out of a person possessed by one.
(v. t.) To deliver or purify from the influence of an evil spirit or demon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The draw was enough to take England to the finals in Japan, where Beckham exorcised the demons of four years earlier by scoring the only goal (a dubiously awarded penalty) in the defeat of Argentina.
(2) The ghosts of Barbara Castle and Peter Shore , never mind Hugh Gaitskell (and, for much of his life, Harold Wilson), were never quite exorcised by the New Labour Europhiles.
(3) Woods certainly appears to have exorcised the demons that have haunted him in recent years, after his world collapsed in spectacular circumstances four years ago.
(4) The next day I began to draw, half-copying the woodcuts from the Chronicle, half exorcising my memory.
(5) Three minutes before the break Andy Taylor, a player with his own Wembley demons to exorcise having missed a crucial penalty here in the 2012 League One play-off final shootout when with Sheffield United, sent a dipping volley narrowly over the bar.
(6) In his unpretentious and beautifully written book, Guinness exorcised a long-suppressed anxiety about his origins.
(7) Mark Hoban has "ghosts to exorcise" from his bright corner office in Whitehall.
(8) Children and their services have been prey to causes célèbres, fashion and the exaggerated fads and foibles of the media and politicians; they have thrived best when society and their carers were tolerant, and loving, sought good qualities to augment, not evil to exorcise, and succeeded in balancing structure and control with flexibility and freedom to grow.
(9) Government officials say the trials, which human rights groups have criticised for failing to observe due process, are necessary to "exorcise historical ghosts".
(10) Psychoanalytic treatment is a cognitive technique for "exorcising" certain identifications by delineating them and then neutralizing them through understanding.
(11) The topic, again, is love and its discontents – Ware recently married and wanted to exorcise the ghosts of previous relationships.
(12) But there is a great deal of sympathy for the young team which is under immense pressure to win the World Cup on home turf and exorcise memories of the defeat by Uruguay in the 1950 final at the Maracanã.
(13) It sounded like a werewolf exorcising a roomful of crucified sopranos.)
(14) Brazilian Marcelo Huertas fed Larry Nance Jr for an alley-oop dunk in the fourth that had the fans cheering, seemingly exorcising the demons of another losing season for the once-proud franchise with the league’s third-worst record.
(15) Obama's foreign policy presidency has, in many respects, been an exercise in exorcising the demons of Iraq – and the mindset that made the war possible – from the American psyche.
(16) One of the offenders suggests that it's to exorcise the guilt he feels about Nannie's son James.
(17) Why break into song and dance to exorcise your inner emotions when you can talk yourself through it?
(18) It wasn't until the 1980s that he commanded his fiction to shine a documentary torch into his own life, to illuminate, and perhaps to exorcise his Shanghai ghosts.
(19) The demand that gay people “repent” or be exorcised (as one Nigerian bishop attempted with a gay campaigner in 1998) was neither acceptable nor even comprehensible in England by 2008, and still less today.
(20) Everyone now and then wants a hug.” Gasquet, who exorcised the demons of last year when he lost to Kyrgios in five sets and forfeited nine match points, said his opponent was “a very nice guy” but “was a little bit angry, a little bit frustrated” during the contentious episode in the second set.
Exorcism
Definition:
(n.) The act of exorcising; the driving out of evil spirits from persons or places by conjuration; also, the form of conjuration used.
(n.) Conjuration for raising spirits.
Example Sentences:
(1) I do want to rule the world.” Bowie was also getting unhealthily interested in the occult; in her memoir, his then wife Angie Bowie describes how he was convinced that the indoor pool in their house in Doheny Drive was possessed by the devil , which led to the pair of them attempting an exorcism.
(2) (Father Karras is possessed and sacrifices himself; 23.66%) • "I cast you out" (the initial exorcism attempt by Father Karras and Father Merrin; 18.33%)
(3) The actual procedure in a similar case of exorcism by a psychiatrist is reported, together with details of the outcome and a discussion of theoretical, applied, and ethical aspects of the case.
(4) Deliverances or exorcisms can often involve physical violence.
(5) Each age and culture can be found to have devised its own appropriate treatment for depression; to remove the "biochemical" cause of the disease process by means of prayer, exorcism or fire, or to do away with the evil spirit.
(6) People with experience of misfortune and calamities had a higher ratio than those without such experience only in "visits to fortunetellers and exorcism rites."
(7) The fascinating pitter-patter of stomach contents against the back of your teeth as a fearsome torrent of spew erupts from within like a liquid poltergeist fleeing an exorcism.
(8) Tamazai is locally-described as "an illness of the heart and soul, not curable by Koranic verses," but by exorcism of spirits.
(9) Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.
(10) As his mother underwent a violent exorcism on stage, the boy told the preacher he hoped selling his toys and donating the proceeds to the church would stop his parents fighting at home.
(11) Lewis Hamilton indulged in some high-speed exorcism when he won pole for the Monaco Grand Prix for the first time in nine attempts and beat his rival and team-mate Nico Rosberg to lay the ghost of last year’s momentous happenings at Formula One’s most celebrated setting.
(12) Why, just a month ago as part of her election campaign, did she visit the notoriously homophobic Jesus House , a fundamentalist church that equates homosexuality with bestiality and has supported exorcisms to rid people of same-sex attraction?
(13) The din that greeted the final whistle served as an exorcism.
(14) Manifestations of such supposed possessions have always been considered malevolent and treated by exorcism.
(15) A case of exorcism as apparently successful treatment of transsexualism has previously been reported.
(16) 'The exorcism was over in 15 minutes but nothing changed' - LGBT life in Nigeria Read more But for Olumide Makanjuola, executive director of The Initiative for Equal Rights (TIERS), it is social acceptance that is a bigger issue than legal protection for the LGBT community.
(17) For Atlético, this was not just a victory, it was an exorcism.
(18) Perhaps David Cameron’s unexpected success on 7 May will allow an exorcism of sorts, but her shade still lingers.
(19) "It seems The Shining's extended periods of tension and soundtrack kept viewers' hearts racing throughout, but simply couldn't match the massive terror induced by Freddy Krueger's multiple gruesome murders or The Exorcist's explicit exorcism."
(20) The answer to demons is not some spooky exorcism,” Blackwood says.