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/ˈɛk.sɔː.sɪ.zəm/ · noun
The ritual act of driving out evil spirits from persons, places or things that are possessed by them..
Master Hume, we are therefore prouided: / will her Ladyship behold and heare our Exorcismes?
But in this part I am going to mention, it lay chiefly in the people deceived, or equally in both; and this was in wearing charms, philtres, exorcisms, amulets, and I know not what preparations, to fortify the body with them against the plague; as if the plague was not the hand of God, but a kind of possession of an evil spirit, and that it was to be kept off with crossings, signs of the zodiac, papers tied up with so many knots, […].
The imputed virtue of folios full of knockdown arguments is supposed to reside in them, just as some of the majesty of the British Empire dwells in the constable’s truncheon. They are used in pure superstition, as old clodhoppers spoil Latin by way of an exorcism.
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Exorcism means The ritual act of driving out evil spirits from persons, places or things that are possessed by them..
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Master Hume, we are therefore prouided: / will her Ladyship behold and heare our Exorcismes?
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