(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.
Priest
Definition:
(n.) A presbyter elder; a minister
(n.) One who is authorized to consecrate the host and to say Mass; but especially, one of the lowest order possessing this power.
(n.) A presbyter; one who belongs to the intermediate order between bishop and deacon. He is authorized to perform all ministerial services except those of ordination and confirmation.
(n.) One who officiates at the altar, or performs the rites of sacrifice; one who acts as a mediator between men and the divinity or the gods in any form of religion; as, Buddhist priests.
(v. t.) To ordain as priest.
Example Sentences:
(1) That is the problem with those who refuse to accept women’s ministry as priests and bishops.
(2) Other high-profile speakers include writer and priest Giles Fraser, and the writer Tariq Ali.
(3) Rev Andrew Foreshew-Cain, vicar of St James church in West Hampstead, London, who last month became the second Church of England priest to marry his same sex partner , said on Twitter that the treatment of Pemberton was "further evidence of the profound homophobia at the heart of the church" .
(4) Both Keilloh and Madden face further hearings: the doctor will be examined by a General Medical Council disciplinary tribunal over his role in Iraq and the priest is to be interviewed by the archbishop of Birmingham, Bernard Longley.
(5) Junípero Serra's road to sainthood is controversial for Native Americans Read more When the King of Spain sent Jesuit priests to prevent Russian fur hunters from claiming the region, he directed them to educate and baptize native peoples so they could become Spanish citizens, but Serra had other plans.
(6) The protester was later identified as the Rev Paul Williamson, who once tried to charge an earlier archbishop of Canterbury with high treason for ordaining female priests.
(7) London's future-soul act Jungle are new at No 7, with another big chart entry for the classic metal act Judas Priest.
(8) When Philip Roth accepted the biennial International Booker prize honouring some 60 years of his fiction, from Goodbye, Columbus to Nemesis , he sat at a wooden table in the studio adjoining his airy Connecticut retreat looking as much like a retired priest, or judge, as the Grand Old Man of American letters, pushing 79.
(9) "The relationship between a bishop and a priest of a Roman Catholic diocese has many of the hallmarks of an employment relationship, and therefore it is right and proper that the church should be held legally accountable for abuse by its priests.
(10) He was happy to dismiss the declarations of his predecessor, Pope Benedict, regarding gay priests, but an apostolic letter written nearly 20 years ago by John Paul II outlining his personal objections to the ordination of women is held to be a "definitive formulation" that is not open to further discussion.
(11) Imhotep’s abilities appear to have been extraordinary: other records show he was a doctor and high priest, as well as the king’s chief carpenter, head sculptor, and second-in-command.
(12) We have a catastrophe now in Utah with opiate overdoses,” said Dan Snarr, a member of the high priest group leadership within the LDS church whose son, Denver, died of a prescription drug overdose at the age of 25 after becoming hooked on painkillers following a rugby injury.
(13) He's now regretting this: "I want to look like a priest, not a protester."
(14) In the town of Boali, 60 miles to the north, the Catholic priest Xavier-Arnauld Fagba went from house to house and into the bush to offer Muslims sanctuary in his church .
(15) The church had already been under fire over the sexual misbehaviour of several priests in various Irish parishes.
(16) Since it started I have had claims from four other people that this priest abused them.
(17) Some of the women priests appeared to have sourced phone cases to match the colour of their clerical robes.
(18) Two men were charged in connection with Grafton Close, including Catholic priest Father Anthony McSweeney, who was found guilty and jailed for three years .
(19) The dissident Gleb Yakunin excavated evidence from the KGB archives in the 1990s that fingered high-ranking priests as KGB agents, including the former head of the church, Aleksei II, and the current, Patriarch Kirill I.
(20) Pemberton, a former parish priest and a divorced father-of-five, was one of dozens of clergy in December 2012 who signed a letter to the Daily Telegraph warning that if the church refused to permit gay weddings in its own churches they would advise members of their congregations to marry elsewhere.