ex|or|cist

ex|or|cist
ex|or|cist «EHK sr sihst», noun.
1. a person who exorcises: »

The priestly exorcists of the later Christian period were more interested in producing spectacular convulsions and other physical symptoms in their subjects than in putting them into trances (The Listener).

2. a member of the second of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church, next below that of acolyte.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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