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exorcist
noun as in magician
Strong matches
Example Sentences
This all changed with the beginning of more serious and disturbing horror films like Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist in the late 1960s and into the ’70s, though audiences didn’t always know what they were in for.
As an old-timey Catholic who grew up in the era of The Exorcist and The Omen and Race with the Devil, there’s always been some Satanic cult movie brewing in me.
Its specially adapted vertebrae let it go full Exorcist when it turns its head 180 degrees in either direction.
In December ’75, James writes in his diary that The Exorcist is making him question his sanity and making him afraid of Satan.
Still, it hardly suffices as persuasive evidence, and what ensues only further suggests that the entire affair—then and now—was little more than fantasy inspired by William Friedkin’s The Exorcist.
Father Vicenzo Taraborelli in Rome is an exorcist with set office hours and dedicated phone lines to take exorcism appointments.
William Friedkin (The Exorcist) and Justin Lin (Fast Five) have been a couple of the names floating about.
His apparently sincere desire to help me deal with my problems made his transition to Exorcist Bob all the more jarring.
When I commented that he was surprisingly ecumenical for an exorcist, he smiled.
Father Taraborelli is a trained exorcist for the Rome diocese, and his work schedule is very busy.
Diseases are attributed to supernatural agency; and the medicine-man, exorcist, or Ojha, is more priest than surgeon.
The conjuration being thrice repeated, we are assured the spirit would rise and answer the exorcist's questions.
The Hindoo exorcist tied his patient's hair in a knot, and then with a nail attached it to a tree.
At a place called Weinsberg lived a man named Justinus Kerner, who exercised the profession of an exorcist or expeller of devils.
In the Roman Catholic Church exorcist is one of the inferior orders of the clergy.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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