(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.
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.