EXORCIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exorcist mean? 

• EXORCIST (noun)
  The noun EXORCIST has 2 senses:

1. one of the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church

2. someone who practices exorcism

  Familiarity information: EXORCIST used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXORCIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("exorcist" is a kind of...):

Holy Order; Order ((usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who practices exorcism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

exorciser; exorcist

Hypernyms ("exorcist" is a kind of...):

magician; necromancer; sorcerer; thaumaturge; thaumaturgist; wizard (one who practices magic or sorcery)

Derivation:

exorcism (freeing from evil spirits)

 Context examples 

“I would fain to France with my friends here,” Alleyne answered; “but I am a man of peace—a reader, exorcist, acolyte, and clerk.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Exorcist?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)