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- noun Plural form of
exorcist .
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Examples
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The exorcists were a recognised and respectable order in the Church.
The Superstitions of Witchcraft Howard Williams
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The Jews must have been well known as exorcists throughout the Roman empire.
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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The film, directed by Nick Whitfield, concerns two on-call exorcists traveling the country under the direction of the shadowy Colonel to clear feature film for his role as IRA gun-runner Jim McCann in "Mr Nice," based on the autobiography of Welsh-born and Oxford-educated who graduated to become Britain's most infamous drug runner in the 1970s and 1980s.
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I will say that of the four panelists Carlton Pearson was probably the most qualified to be on that stage as he has been involved in "exorcists" and found a way to understand the Biblically unsound belief in Satan as being inconsistent with the belief in one God as Christianity claims to believe.
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I don't know about where you live ... but when you look up "exorcists" in the Yellow Pages here, you wind up with a big ol 'list of nothing.
unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2005
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KJV uses it as two words, "God speed") constructive economics probability premonition chaos suicide (which could be used to describe the demon-possessed pigs, and Judas) exorcism (but Jewish "exorcists" are referenced at Acts 19: 13) (could be used to describe the casting out of demons)
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And if devils and exorcists didn't exist we would have to make them up.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: Sky-Fi With The Event Michael Conniff 2010
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A tale of wandering, bickering exorcists who cleanse the secrets lurking in people's closets, the movie combines an ambitious sense of playful fantastical absurdism with an underlying heartbeat of melancholic mourning.
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up Mark Kermode 2010
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The Greek Church permanently confront some groups of self-proclaimed exorcists mainly old -women that traditionally practice their own rite against " evil-eye" that includes religious procedure with olive oil, water and Cross, but opposite to recommendations of Church and The Great Book of Needs.
Sasa Milosevic: The Secrets Of Orthodox Exorcists Sasa Milosevic 2011
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And if devils and exorcists didn't exist we would have to make them up.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: Sky-Fi With The Event Michael Conniff 2010
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