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exorcize

(ˈɛksɔːˌsaɪz) or

exorcise

(Alternative Belief Systems) (tr) to expel or attempt to expel (one or more evil spirits) from (a person or place believed to be possessed or haunted), by prayers, adjurations, and religious rites

[C15: from Late Latin exorcizāre, from Greek exorkizein, from ex-¹ + horkizein to adjure]

ˈexorˌcizer, ˈexorˌciser n

ˈexorcism n

ˈexorcist n

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exorcize

Past participle: exorcized
Gerund: exorcizing

Imperative
exorcize
exorcize

Present
I exorcize
you exorcize
he/she/it exorcizes
we exorcize
you exorcize
they exorcize

Preterite
I exorcized
you exorcized
he/she/it exorcized
we exorcized
you exorcized
they exorcized

Present Continuous
I am exorcizing
you are exorcizing
he/she/it is exorcizing
we are exorcizing
you are exorcizing
they are exorcizing

Present Perfect
I have exorcized
you have exorcized
he/she/it has exorcized
we have exorcized
you have exorcized
they have exorcized

Past Continuous
I was exorcizing
you were exorcizing
he/she/it was exorcizing
we were exorcizing
you were exorcizing
they were exorcizing

Past Perfect
I had exorcized
you had exorcized
he/she/it had exorcized
we had exorcized
you had exorcized
they had exorcized

Future
I will exorcize
you will exorcize
he/she/it will exorcize
we will exorcize
you will exorcize
they will exorcize

Future Perfect
I will have exorcized
you will have exorcized
he/she/it will have exorcized
we will have exorcized
you will have exorcized
they will have exorcized

Future Continuous
I will be exorcizing
you will be exorcizing
he/she/it will be exorcizing
we will be exorcizing
you will be exorcizing
they will be exorcizing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been exorcizing
you have been exorcizing
he/she/it has been exorcizing
we have been exorcizing
you have been exorcizing
they have been exorcizing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been exorcizing
you will have been exorcizing
he/she/it will have been exorcizing
we will have been exorcizing
you will have been exorcizing
they will have been exorcizing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been exorcizing
you had been exorcizing
he/she/it had been exorcizing
we had been exorcizing
you had been exorcizing
they had been exorcizing

Conditional
I would exorcize
you would exorcize
he/she/it would exorcize
we would exorcize
you would exorcize
they would exorcize

Past Conditional
I would have exorcized
you would have exorcized
he/she/it would have exorcized
we would have exorcized
you would have exorcized
they would have exorcized

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Verb

exorcize - expel through adjuration or prayers; "exorcise evil spirits"

exorcise

organized religion, religion, faith - an institution to express belief in a divine power; "he was raised in the Baptist religion"; "a member of his own faith contradicted him"

eject, turf out, boot out, chuck out, exclude, turn out - put out or expel from a place; "The unruly student was excluded from the game"

Translations

uddrive

exorciser

reka út/særa burt illa anda

esorcizzare esorcismo

išvaryti piktąsias dvasiaspiktųjų dvasių varymaspiktųjų dvasių varytojas

izdzīt ļaunos garus

drive ut foreta djevleutdrivelse

kovmak

exorcize

[ˈɛksɔː^rsaɪz] exorcise (British) vt

[+ pain, memory] → exorciser

[+ evil spirit] → exorciser

exorcize

vt → exorzieren; evil spirit also → austreiben

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

exorcize,

exorcise

(ˈeksoːsӕiz) verb

to drive away (an evil spirit); to rid (a house etc) of an evil spirit.

ˈexorcism noun

(an) act of exorcizing.

ˈexorcist noun

a person who exorcizes.

References in periodicals archive ?

Having exorcized the Curse of the Bambino by ending an 86-year championship drought in 2004, the Red Sox took the opportunity of their 2007 championship season to try to exorcize a curse that was equally irrational and infinitely more cruel: the unwarranted and deeply hurtful scapegoating - by the media and fans alike - of Bill Buckner for the team's failure to win the Major League Baseball championship in 1986.

Red Sox exorcize another championship curse

But the bonfires came to have special resonance within the Catholic context of exorcism, as Passafari explains: "The fire also destroys that which is evil, that which is damaging, and they [the people who light it] use fire to exorcize that which is perverse and to repel evil." (103) Passafari reiterates that the purpose of the bonfires was "to purify, burn or destroy the damaging influences of witches, demons and monsters.

The diabolical adventures of Don Quixote, or self-Exorcism and the rise of the novel (*)

The large-scale projections of the footage are accompanied by audio recordings of strangely incongruous nocturnal rituals performed by a shaman with the miners, perhaps to exorcize the coal-dust demons.