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banishing

Word definitions for banishing in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A magical ritual intended to remove negative spiritual influences. vb. (present participle of banish English)

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In ceremonial magic , banishing refers to one or more rituals intended to remove non-physical influences ranging from spirits to negative influences. Although banishing rituals are often used as components of more complex ceremonies, they can also be performed ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Banish \Ban"ish\ (b[a^]n"[i^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Banished (b[a^]n"[i^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. Banishing .] [OF. banir, F. bannir, LL. bannire, fr. OHG. bannan to summon, fr. ban ban. See Ban an edict, and Finish , v. t.] To condemn to exile, or compel ...

Usage examples of banishing.

Although he wanted to do the banishings immediately, the chamber had secrets to tell him which would be lost once he did the working.

Even his swordbelt was wet, and I had just enough time to wonder why a magic user would be wearing a swordbelt before he moved his hand in a banishing gesture.

Damon with a gently banishing gesture, and both children vanished into wisps of dream.

One of the tall, robed women in the vulture headdresses was there with her blazing sword, but Acquilara made some strange banishing gesture and the woman in the vulture headdress exploded into blue light.

Desperately, he tried, to Work - there was solid ground under him, therefore there must be earth-fae accessible - and he managed the ghost of a Banishing, barely enough to dissipate the fear directly before him, not enough to keep its fringes from affecting the rest of his party.

Once Senzei thought he saw a face begin to form on a glistening outcropping of rock - but he quickly muttered the key to a Banishing, and the face disappeared.

Let him at each of these 24 banishings make three circumambulations widdershins, with the signs of Horus and Harpocrates in the East as he passes it.