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- noun Plural form of
exorciser .
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Examples
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Here pagan and Christian exorcisers opposed each other.
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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[242] He gives his opinion of the Gnostic exorcisers in particular in VI.xxxix. f.
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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It was as exorcisers that Christians went out into the great world, and exorcism formed one very powerful method of their mission and propaganda.
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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Then a throwing spear snicked the trunk of a tree, and another, for there were no soldiers, and this congregation of exorcisers were mad with wrath at the thought of the evil which Tibbetti was preparing for them.
Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country Edgar Wallace 1903
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To effect a release, the exorcisers, it would appear, made representations by means of drawings on clay of these habitations of the witches.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891
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The priests, acting as exorcisers, would be the ones interested in making such collections, and we may assume, as already suggested, that each temple would develop a collection of its own, -- an incantation code that served as a guide for its priests.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891
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These exorcisers were of course priests, and at an early period of Babylonian culture it must have been one of the main functions of priests to combat the influence of evil spirits.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891
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Again, examples of women as exorcisers and as furnishing oracles [1467] may be instanced in
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891
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New cases not as yet provided for would arise, and new formulas with new instructions would be produced; or the exorcisers at a certain temple would learn of remedies tried elsewhere, and would embody them in their own special code.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891
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But when once a person had come under the baneful power of the demons, recourse was had to a professional class of exorcisers, who acted as mediators between the victims and the gods to whom the ultimate appeal for help was made.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891
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