(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.
Exorcist
Definition:
(n.) One who expels evil spirits by conjuration or exorcism.
(n.) A conjurer who can raise spirits.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was one of the fake tongue extensions from The Exorcist, with a note saying, 'Just stick a dab of peanut butter on the end and put it on.'
(2) Warp's next act of subversion was to wind up Pete Tong by declaring that bleep was dead and that the future of music was "clonk" - the title of Sweet Exorcist's next 12in.
(3) Last year it was Jaws, which gave us more dangerous frissons, and not long before that it was The Exorcist, with enough green slime to give us all nightmares.
(4) "I'd stopped going out," says Richard H Kirk, who had been in Cabaret Voltaire before creating an early bleep hit for Warp under the name Sweet Exorcist.
(5) Top 10 scariest films voted by Play.com users (scariest moment and scariest film scores combined) The Shining (1980) The Exorcist (1973) A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) Ring (aka Ringu) (1998) Alien (1979) The Silence of the Lambs (1990) Poltergeist (1982) Insidious (2010) Halloween (1978) Saw (2004) Three scariest moments from the top three The Shining • "Here's Johnny" scene (28.2% increase in average heart rate) • Twin girls scene ("Come and play"; 23.1%) • "Red rum" scene (21.0%) A Nightmare on Elm Street • "Fight fire with fire" (where Nancy Thompson brings Freddy Krueger into the real world from her dream; 26.7%) • "No way out" (where Johnny Depp 's character, Glen Lantz, is murdered by Freddy and his bedroom fills with blood; 26.2%) • "A bloody mess" (where Tina Gray is murdered by Freddy in front of her boyfriend Rod Lane; 26.2%) The Exorcist • "Attic noises" (where Christine MacNeil investigates a strange noise in her attic; 24.80%) • "Take me!"
(6) Those glassy peepers stare at you fiercely, and it is hard to resist associations with The Exorcist.
(7) PR A good psychiatrist, and even a good exorcist, would say that one has to flush out a problem and look it square in the eye.
(8) "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."
(9) Merrily Watkins Late thirties, single mother with a difficult teenager, Merrily Watkins is a parish priest ... and exorcist (or, as rebranded by the modern Church of England, "Deliverance Consultant").
(10) They enlist the help of Beetlejuice, a mischievous freelance "bio-exorcist" ghost, to scare away the obnoxious new family which moves in but soon discover they may have bitten off more than they can chew.
(11) In the cinema of this era, there are so many great works that it is hard to do more than list some of the very best – The Exorcist , Suspiria or The Shining , all movies that place the gothic at the heart of modern life.
(12) According to the results of the hearing of witnesses during the now legally valid proceedings ending with the exorcists and the deceased's parents being convicted for accidental homicide a doctor probably also participated in what happend in a reprehensible manner.
(13) An investigation of the Malay shamanistic ritual (Main Peteri) expands the scope of discussion, since it reveals that embedded within this exorcistic spirit-raising seance is a nonprojective indigenous theory of psychic functioning, employing symbols internal to the patient, which is comparable to, and no more nor less rational than, mainstream Western theories.
(14) Movies such as 2002's Spider-Man, 2003's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and 2006's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, all of which sit comfortably in the top 10 of the unaltered chart, are nowhere to be seen in the adjusted version, while old favourites like 1967's The Graduate, 1973's The Exorcist and 1965's Dr Zhivago make unexpected appearances.
(15) Polymorphia – composed in 1961 and used in The Shining, The Exorcist, and Peter Weir's Fearless , too – turns a string orchestra into a reservoir of sounds that seem to come from another planet.
(16) Carrie ended up being quite a zeitgeisty novel: published in the same rough timeframe as Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist , and when cinemas were showing Don't Look Now and The Wicker Man .
(17) Max von Sydow Carl Adolph von Sydow's resume reads like a brief summary of 20th and 21st centuary film history: he was the knight in The Seventh Seal, a priest in The Exorcist, and Harry Haller in Steppenwolf.
(18) The Shining scored the scariest scene, with scenes from Wes Craven's original 1984 A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Exorcist in second and third place respectively.
(19) Following the distribution and release of the movie, "The "Exorcist," much publicity concerning the psychiatric hazards of the film was reported.
(20) The indigenous exorcistic methods of treatment will be more effective in some cases than in others and a careful diagnosis will provide indications as to the choice of treatment.