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Definition of Exorcising
1. exorcise [v] - See also: exorcise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exorcising
Literary usage of Exorcising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1852)
"And of THERE is in the church of Home a horrible impiety exorcising pos- taught
and practised, which so far as it goes must sessed persons. needs destroy ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... the exorcising of demons. It is extensively mixed with Buddhist ideas, having
borrowed from that system the notion of a trinity of Pure Ones. ..."
3. Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden (1906)
"Divination in either case frequently only forms part of an exorcising ceremony,
as the possessed medicine-man, after replying to the usual questions ..."
4. Scandinavian Folk-lore: Illustrations of the Traditional Beliefs of the by William Alexander Craigie (1896)
"exorcising the Living. THERE was once a very clever priest in Stillinge ; he had
gone through " the black school," and was an expert in that line, ..."
5. The Court of King James the First by Godfrey Goodman (1839)
"exorcising at Court.] COSIN, MY keeper (according to your desire) attended the
coming of your man, and went with him to Wetherden, where he killed such a ..."
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