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EXORCIST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who practices exorcism

Synonyms:

exorciser; exorcist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("exorcist" is a kind of...):

magician; necromancer; sorcerer; thaumaturge; thaumaturgist; wizard (one who practices magic or sorcery)

Derivation:

exorcism (freeing from evil spirits)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One of the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("exorcist" is a kind of...):

Holy Order; Order ((usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy)

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