What is "exorcize"

Usage examples of "exorcize".

Further, it is a greater thing to baptize, than to perform the other sacramental rites of Baptism, such as to catechize, to exorcize, and to bless the baptismal water.

Whether those who are to be baptized should be catechized or exorcized by priests?

Praepositivus, however, says that children who die after being exorcized but before being baptized are subjected to lesser darkness.

But in solemn Baptism the water which is used for baptizing, is exorcized and blessed.

Therefore to catechize and to exorcize do not belong to the office of the priests, but rather to that of the ministers.

The same Moses (the civil Soveraigne of Israel) when he consecrated Aaron (the High Priest,) and his Sons, did wash them with Water, (not Exorcized water,) put their Garments upon them, and anointed them with Oyle.

It still occurs occasionally, though now exorcized by writing about it.

The warmth of her breasts and her heart beating against his exorcized Priestess Poogli completely.

One of the books he kept under his mattress explained the ceremony for exorcizing evil.

It had also, she now realized, been a way of exorcizing the horror that had unfolded at Philip Hawkin's trial.

The occasion for exorcizing Velikovsy and his heresies from the land and reaffirming the true faith was selected to be the 1974 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which that year was scheduled to be held in San Francisco.

It seemed that in their bitterness towards those unfortunate little ones, they were somehow exorcizing their own fearful background.

When it was over he marinated in pleasure for a time, thinking, this is contentment, now are the demons of the day exorcized, my tension soothed, my fear eased.