How To Use Exorcise In A Sentence
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The key skills he 'exorcised' for a decade are limited in the extreme.
The Ghost Of Leaders Past
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No matter what she claims she has not managed to exorcise his memory.
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I didn't clean, so we hired a maid who said she would do it only if our house were exorcized.
A Country of Husbands
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Yet its importance as a metaphor for evil means that the coalition remains desperate to exorcise these demons.
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Note 61: CS 1601; Proto-Mashariki * - pung - "to winnow, to fan"; PNECB * - pung "to winnow, to fan, to exorcise"; e.g.,
Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
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Then, the priest exorcises the child by breathing on the child's forehead, mouth, and breast.
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Finally, about Humanism, I would have thought that my use of the word "exorcise" suggested that Rabelais was indeed strongly attracted, and that the only way he could free himself from its trammels was by writing as he did.
The Rabelais Story
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The exorciser would have no difficulty in threading his way through the complicated mass.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
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This distinction should not simply be pushed aside without an attempt to diagnose and exorcize some of the lingering cultural stereotypes within it.
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But one deeply entrenched demon I would like to exorcise is my tendency to break into a cold sweat when dealing with things financial.
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The young composer wanders through a haunted mansion, trying to exorcise the spirits of his tyrannical father and castrating sisters.
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It has copied, by the aid of the telescope, the trilingual arrow-headed inscriptions written 300 feet high upon the face of the rocks of Behistun; and though the alphabets and the languages in which these long inscriptions were "graven with a pen of iron and lead upon the rocks for ever," had been long dead and unknown, yet, by a kind of philological divination, Archæology has exorcised and resuscitated both; and from these dumb stones, and from the analogous inscriptions of Van,
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1
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With the emphatic repetition of this line at the end of the book, the image of the omnipotent deity has been exorcized from Vallejo's poetic imagery.
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Later, when his ordinary mind began to work again, Johannes would think that he painted to exorcize war itself.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Practicing charismatic prophecy, many of Montanus's followers were women, who were allowed to teach, heal, and exorcise demons.
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Accompanying these threats, the actions indicated were symbolically performed by the exorciser on effigies of the witches made, in this case, of bitumen covered with pitch.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
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The ghost was exorcized from the house.
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Then he exorcises the evil spirit haunting them and becomes chief.
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A priest exorcized the ghost from the house.
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Only four of those who perished on the claustrophobic clifftop almost exactly a year ago were granted the opportunity to exorcise those memories on the wide open spaces of Mount Florida.
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All the powers of 'globalism' have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcize this spectre: Microsoft and Disney, the World Trade Organization, the United States Congress and the European Commission.
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The Logic is again found consistent with Brouwer's intuitionist mathematics, where truth is revealed by the mathematical exorcize of derivation.
Ambiguity Tolerance
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Or, if I was very unlucky and lived in a remote Scottish hamlet, a lay preacher would have been brought around to my house to exorcise me.
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Which had probably all been thrown out along with the clothes, Liz told Alec Stainton herself pessimistically, to exorcize the ghosts.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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The priests exorcised the young girl of evil spirits.
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The energumens, who were exorcized daily, were prevented by the daily exorcisms and sweeping duties from pursuing their usual callings.
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A priest was called in to exorcize the ghost.
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But there's a major difference between believing in demonic possession and using torture and beatings to exorcize children.
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The Java package com. sun.javafx.geom.*, which is part of the implementation, is actually nothing more than a portable version of the familiar java. awt.geom.* package, exorcised of its external AWT dependencies.
Sun Bloggers
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Iverson played with what appeared to be a reckless fury, as if he could only exorcise his demons on the basketball court.
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And if, besides striking the real cause, the exorciser is fortunate enough in his enumeration of the various gods, goddesses, and spirits to call by name upon the _right_ god or spirit, the one who has the power over the demon in question, his object is achieved.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
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I couldn't shake it off and I ended up wearing a shirt with their name on it to kind of exorcise the ghost, and I guess I did it by writing this song about it.
Mike Ragogna: A Tiger Suit, Junip & Great Companions: Conversations with KT Tunstall, Dar Williams, and José González, plus a KT Video Exclusive
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What better way to exorcize the horrors of the sickroom than with flesh that was smooth and whole and healthy?
HERE BE DRAGONS
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I have flaunted these truisms before you in order to exorcise that modern slang of yours which is more false than the overstrained forms of a feudal France.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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The newspapers have run stories about a girl who was almost trampled to death under the feet of a church congregation as they tried to exorcise her.
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In all these cases we may suppose the process, whether of cleansing or drying, to have fully exorcised the aitu.
In the South Seas
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It took Indian fans and cricketers several years and a few important victories to exorcise this ghost from our minds.
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When the pope turned his attention to the young woman, he prayed over her, exorcised her, and stayed with her for half an hour.
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He confronted his childhood trauma and tried to exorcise the pain.
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We gradually exorcized her feelings of panic and terror.
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He should repent and exorcise the institutional bias of his department.
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Uncle Ted had done absolutely nothing since the day Dad exorcized him as he sat with a record-player in his lap.
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To prescribe the formula to be used to the one appealing for help, is the special function of the priest acting as exorciser.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
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I eventually gave up and called a priest to come over and exorcise the demonic spirits.
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The film will feature interviews with preachers from the churches that brand children witches or wizards and charge their parents to "exorcise" the spirits.
WN.com - Business News
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He is therefore in a peculiar sense 'the lord of the fates' of mankind, the chief exorciser, the all-wise magician of the gods, at whose command and under whose protection, the priest performs his symbolical acts.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
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And she kind of exorcised those demons by writing her memoirs.
CNN Transcript May 18, 2003
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That doesn't particularly inspire confidence as the ladies bid to exorcise the painful memories of last year's defeat.
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The tone veers from serious to comic horror at this point and encompasses several botched (and occasionally very funny) attempts to exorcise the ghost.
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exorcise evil spirits
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As we join them, they're marking another German village as they construct an elaborate show to convince the locals they've exorcised a witch that didn't exist in the first place.
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He confronted his childhood trauma and tried to exorcise the pain.
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What better way to exorcize the horrors of the sickroom than with flesh that was smooth and whole and healthy?
HERE BE DRAGONS
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Wilson provides vignettes of almost 40 skeptics or atheists, most of whom were unable to exorcise religion completely from their minds and psyches.
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His win in California this year exorcised the memory of a famous flop in the same event two years ago.
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I discovered at the midnight end of a 48-hour marathon writing session that I was completely exhausted, totally exhilarated, and momentarily exorcized of all my pain.
Toward the Within
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I'll probably reserve them for car trips; I'll be making one in the next month or so to my dad's, anyway, that I might have the my Sentra exorcised from the Possessed CD Player of Death.
Putting the "voodoo" back in "voodoo economics"
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Mr. Tully plays the prodigal, hirsute and nearly mute football hero Cornelius Rawlings , who returns to the family farm and his misfit brothers: Amos (Onar Tukel), a recluse who exorcises demons in grotesque illustrations, and Ezra ( Robert Longstreet ), a religious nut and crossdresser who flutters about like an obsessive mother hen.
Bombshells and Boxers
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If somebody was brought to me who needed to be exorcised, provided that the person was willing, I would do all I could to help.
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The ‘devil dancing’ of the southern coastal lowlands developed from folk ceremonies to exorcise demons.
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Human physiology is the demon we can't exorcise.
Times, Sunday Times
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But there's a major difference between believing in demonic possession and using torture and beatings to exorcize children.
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As the eldest and smartest student, she bravely stayed in the haunted room in the dormitory and successfully exorcised the evil spirit.
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What better way to exorcize the horrors of the sickroom than with flesh that was smooth and whole and healthy?
HERE BE DRAGONS
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Luckily there were plenty of other sideshows around the convention halls to cheer spirits and exorcise such defeatist sentiments.
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It is not people or places which are exorcised, but rather the demonic forces of evil in those persons or places.
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One form might claim that the idea of a significant debate is generated by unsupported or unsupportable philosophical theses about the relationship of the experiencing and minded subject to their world, and that once these theses are exorcised the ˜debate™ will gradually wither away.
Realism
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As women peruse this period propaganda, we see the female body morph into a reeking vessel of shame that must be sterilized, aromatized, and exorcized in order to be considered attractive again.
Caroline Hagood: Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation
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And I write, hoping to exorcise some frustration.
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In Mesopotamia, where the reading of omens was developed into an art, the symptoms of the disease were understood as omens too, just as a potsherd found by the exorciser on his way to the sick man could be of ominous portent.
HEALTH AND DISEASE
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They will insure that no matter what the magnitude of his achievement, the memory of it will be downplayed, marginalized and exorcised - just like before.
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A priest was called in to exorcise the ghost.
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A priest was called in to exorcise the ghost.
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Steinbeck's appreciation of him is partly an obituary, partly an attempt to exorcise his ghost.
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It cannot exorcise their horrific memories, but at least they can again view the place as a venue where Azzurri football can be celebrated, instead of regarding it only as their graveyard.
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Shamans or Buddhist monks can be called on to exorcise such ill-intentioned spirits.
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Matteo Borrini, who recently excavated an "exorcised" skull from a 16th-century grave on the Venetian island of Lazzaretto Nuovo, discusses the reality behind belief in malicious, pestilent plague vampires
Uncanny Archaeology
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Some warmth was gleaned from a midweek cup win over Kaiserslautern on penalties, but that alone will not exorcise the memory of last weekend's 5-1 cuffing by Schalke.
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The half is when the jitters and fears you've been dealing with during rehearsal must be exorcised.
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Please don't let Chris try to exorcise me again.
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In particular, says the Report, it was thought necessary in the Early Church to exorcise the sites of churches to be consecrated or reconsecrated.
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Mark clearly associates the storm with evil by characterizing the wind with the same language he used to describe the demon exorcised by Jesus in chapter 1.
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Senior Editor Samir S. Patel spoke with University of Florence forensic anthropologist and archaeologist Matteo Borrini after the meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Science in Denver, where he presented an "exorcised" skull from a plague grave on the Venetian island of Lazzaretto Nuovo.
Plague Vampire Exorcism
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Last year, a 15-year-old girl, alleged to be possessed by the devil, was exorcised live on TV.
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We gradually exorcized her feelings of panic and terror.
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It confronted the “evil spirit” that had possessed that nation—a totalitarian, emperor-worshipping military cult obsessed with expansion—and violently exorcized it.
HOW EVIL WORKS
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Maybe writing about it will exorcize this particular demon.
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He could invoke saints and employ relics, sprinkle holy water and exorcise the devil.
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A priest was called in to exorcize the ghost.
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If you do she'll exorcize you herself from within.
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In particular, says the Report, it was thought necessary in the Early Church to exorcise the sites of churches to be consecrated or reconsecrated.
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The reverend's tactics may be unusual — he's been known to leap on shop counters in order to "exorcise" cash registers — but his message of modest spending is increasingly mainstream.
Is The Mall Dead?
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In this way the exorciser proceeds to enumerate an exceedingly long list of sins -- no less than one hundred -- most of which are ethical misdemeanors, while others are merely ceremonial transgressions.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
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Nobody tried to exorcise me when I was at that church.
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Which had probably all been thrown out along with the clothes, Liz told Alec Stainton herself pessimistically, to exorcize the ghosts.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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Now the feng shui doctor has been called in to exorcise the room.
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His troubled spirit was said to have haunted a certain home, and the bottle apparently was an attempt by a priest to exorcise the spirit.
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Up to 15,000 children in Nigeria's Akwa Ibom and Cross River states alone have been branded witches by rogue pastors, who charge large sums to "exorcise" them....
Witch Children On The Steets
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Years ago, while trying to exorcise the demons of fundamentalist Christianity from my blood, I began studying my interlingual Hebrew-English OT and Greek-English NT and was very surprised to find that parsing out the simplest of verses was a nightmarishly difficult task.
Discover Blogs
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Attempts are made in vain to exorcise his spirit, but when the robe of a saint is placed on his shoulders, he achieves spiritual release.
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Later, when his ordinary mind began to work again, Johannes would think that he painted to exorcize war itself.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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• Rafael Nadal exorcises 2009 (and exercises his clay-court peerlessness), winning the men's title yet again.
SI.com
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His main concern, and that of his players, is that they have the opportunity to exorcise the memory of a bad experience in the Connacht semi-final against Roscommon.
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Having "exorcised" at least some of your fears, and made plans for addressing the remainder, it's time to practice writing fearlessly.
Hillary Rettig: How to Overcome Writer's Block
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He confronted his childhood trauma and tried to exorcise the pain.
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This afternoon, in an altogether less meaningful league fixture between the sides, Lennon returns to the Gorgie ground determined to exorcise the memory of that demoralising day.
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As women peruse this period propaganda, we see the female body morph into a reeking vessel of shame that must be sterilized, aromatized, and exorcized in order to be considered attractive again.
Caroline Hagood: Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation
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The other religious people heard of the demon in the church and warned him to exorcize me from the place.
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A spell, certainly, was over everyone, and then the exorciser became human, and jested deliciously till the early morning, when, as I went home through the still garrulous and peopled streets, I saw the last flutter of flags and streamers between night and dawn.
Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory
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As the eldest and smartest student, she bravely stayed in the haunted room in the dormitory and successfully exorcised the evil spirit.
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I eventually gave up and called a priest to come over and exorcise the demonic spirits.
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Any effort to exorcise these tendencies from the outside is, therefore, futile; it only gives rise to moralistic sermons and rhetorical jeremiads.
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Some of the problems include a kid dying of cancer who shows very little (if any) signs of sickness, a poorly developed romantic subplot, and a scene in a gay biker bar which should have been completely exorcised from the completed film.
Fantastic Fest Review: Fanboys | /Film
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Human physiology is the demon we can't exorcise.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ivan then began performing miracles - he exorcised evil spirits, and healed illnesses and infirmities, at least according to historical sources left from that time.
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The fashionable devotee, in order to counteract this, either stimulates the system with alcohol, or exorcises the "fidgets" by the use of sedatives, such as chloral or morphia.
Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire
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Like the legend of the snake-shaped genie who protects the gold from prospectors and holy men trying to exorcise it with tricks and prayers.
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It probably means half the pubs in Glasgow won't allow me to drink in them anymore, but it was worth it to say I was exorcised in the Vatican.
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We might argue that she needed to ‘expose’ her mother, warts and all, in order to exorcise her memories of their relationship.
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Even before he had buried her, he had begun to try to exorcise the memory of her final bewildered, agonized week.
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Night being a favorite time for the recital of the incantations, it was natural that the orb of night, the god Sin, should be added to the pantheon of the exorciser.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
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In the interest of avoiding such untenable consequences, the notion that a haunting is a condition which can and should be ascertained upon reasonable inspection of the premises is a hobgoblin which should be exorcised from the body of legal precedent and laid quietly to rest ...
First Department
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a Mrs. Wright, found in a scarlet bag which she wore under her arm a pure gold "sigil" or round plate worth about ten dollars in gold, which the former husband of the defunct had used to exorcise a spirit that plagued him.
The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages
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They use certain Quranic verses to exorcize someone.
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èclaircissement, explanation, declaration. eilding, fuel. empressement, eagerness. en croupe, behind the saddle. enfant trouvè, foundling. es spuckt do it haunts there. et puis, and then. ex cathedra, from the chair; with authority. exorciso te, I exorcise thee.
Glossary
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A priest exorcized the ghost from the house.
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Later, when his ordinary mind began to work again, Johannes would think that he painted to exorcize war itself.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Now Rosa has written an autobiographical novel in an attempt to exorcise her trauma.
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Some scholars believe that the Chinese Lunar New Year originated from a ritual ceremony originally intended to exorcize the evil spirits.
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Instead of letting us exorcise him, she makes him help out with the housework.
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And they are having trouble and have had trouble for years, decades, trying to exorcise him from their lives.
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In a traumatic ritual, she was exorcised in a local church at the age of 17.
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She had managed to exorcize these unhappy memories from her mind.
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The Christian allegorists, recharging the remaindered Pagan symbols, hope to exorcise the residual energies of the pagan world.
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When the symptoms were very complicated, the patient was supposed to be possessed with many demons — a demon of madness, one of luxury, one of avarice, one of obstinacy, one of short-sightedness, one of deafness; and the exorciser could not easily miss finding a demon of foolery created, with another of knavery.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Residents would even pray to some of the edifices to exorcise evil spirits and bring good weather for crops.
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We gradually exorcized her feelings of panic and terror.
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In the second passage, following the transfiguration, Jesus must exorcise a demon from a suffering child because his apostles could not do so, reportedly due to their lack of faith.
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Which had probably all been thrown out along with the clothes, Liz told Alec Stainton herself pessimistically, to exorcize the ghosts.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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The post isn't actually about the TV show, but the analogy sprung to mind and I haven't been able to fully exorcise it.
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He exorcised the assumption the free market was only for numbskulls.
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This is not the first attempt to exorcise the demon drink.
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Kitaro is drawn into an intrigue which is seeing young women disappear courtesy of an unhappy spirit and embarks on a mission to either exorcise or becalm this miserable fantasm.
DVD Times
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Among other things, this will help all parties concerned to exorcise any remaining bad memories of religious conflict, and get on with their lives.
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One should recall that Marx's writings are contemporaneous with the rise of spiritualism and that they can be viewed as historical materialist attempts to exorcise this craze.
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After the priest exorcized the spirit/house/child, apparently, the strange noises stopped.
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The sound generated by the bamboo could both arouse gods to be appeased or exorcise evil spirits.
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So I could exorcise my feelings of aggression and powerlessness by watching wrestling, where all disputes were ultimately settled through creative, highly entertaining faux violence played out by men as confident, mighty and musclebound as I wish I was.
Jonathan Kim: Why I Still Love Pro Wrestling and Will Miss "Macho Man" Randy Savage
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I had to exorcise, once and for all, that gnawing unease.
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Even if the “ugly spirits,” as he called the possessive forces, could not be exorcised, they could be kept under control, he discovered, through the process of writing about them.
The Typewriter Is Holy
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Thus he managed to cancel — I should probably say "exorcise" — his adolescent humiliation in that city, and some of the disappointments of his maturity as well.
The Immortal
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There is also a good deal of confusion as to whether it is better to exorcise or exercise one's memories.
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An attempt to exorcise the house by a Catholic priest ended with him fleeing in fear and prompted the strange occurrences to intensify.
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It has been exorcized from the energy vocabulary unless connected to the words "spills" or "foreign dependency.
Macha Levinson: Let's Bring Oil Back Into the Energy Debate
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The Church would neither exorcise the children of the faithful nor subject them to the rite of exsufflation.
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As we have just noted, others, including the disciples of Jesus, shared his ability to exorcize evil spirits.
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No matter how disgusting it looks when it's carted off and I confess there are occasionally stains so brazen you'd bet your children there's no way they'll ever be exorcized, it comes back looking like a million bucks, almost brand new, and certainly attractive enough to resume having guests and putting off investing in a new floor covering through one more presidency.
Why the Carpet Is White
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After the priest exorcized the spirit/house/child, apparently, the strange noises stopped.
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Our country's military, and much of our populace, has been possessed by the memory of that defeat and will do almost anything to exorcize it.
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It was the only time that he had been stopped in his professional career and he is determined to exorcise the memories of that defeat.
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Now she has written an autobiographical novel in an attempt to exorcise her trauma.
