exorcize

POS

Verb (transitive)

HYPHEN

ex=or=cize

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb exorcize has 1 sense

exorcize(v = verb.contact) exorcise - expel through adjuration or prayers; "exorcise evil spirits"

is one way to boot out, chuck out, eject, exclude, turf out, turn out

Derived form noun exorcism₁

Sample sentence:
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OXFORD DICTIONARY

exorcize, v.tr. (also -ise)
1 expel (a supposed evil spirit) by invocation or by use of a holy name.
2 (often foll. by of) free (a person or place) of a supposed evil spirit.

Derivative

exorcism n. exorcist n. exorcization n.

Etymology

F exorciser or eccl.L exorcizare f. Gk exorkizo (as EX-(2), horkos oath)

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