Lexicographical Neighbors of Exorcistic
Literary usage of Exorcistic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contributions Toward a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture by Leo Wiener (1917)
"... that is, as far as the workmanship of the poem and its exorcistic value are
concerned. As a mere prayer for protection against the demons of the night, ..."
2. A practical commentary on the Gospel according to st. Mark by James Morison (1882)
"There would however, we may be sure, be many mountebank pretenders to exorcistic
power. See Acts xix. 13, 14. And some perhaps, on the other hand, ..."
3. Similarities of Redaction of the Gospel According to Matthew, with Texts of by Pasi K. Pohjala (2006)
"... Already the original version may have been a parable.473 In recent discussions
it has been proposed that the original story may have been an exorcistic ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"... world is haunted by innumerable demons, who take possession of men and may be
driven out of them by exorcistic adjurations, which pervades the Gospels. ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly (1889)
"and his subjection to exorcistic formulae and rites. Jesus is made to say that
the devil " was a murderer from the beginning " (John viii, 44) by the same ..."
6. Science and Hebrew Tradition by Thomas Henry Huxley (1897)
"... world is haunted by innumerable demons, who take possession of men and"~may
be driven out of them by exorcistic adjurations, which pervades the Gospels. ..."
7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In Matt., v, 13, salt symbolizes wisdom, though perhaps originally it had an
exorcistic signification. ..."
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