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exorcistical

exorcistical

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exorcistical (not comparable)

  1. Relating to exorcism.
    • 1754, George Lavington, The enthusiasm of Methodists and Papists compared:
      But the Exorcistical Writers reckon "among the certain Signs of a Possession, or Witchcraft, the hearing or seeing preternaturally such strange things.
    • 2005, B. Arps, Performance in Java and Bali, page 18:
      One of the reasons why the central tradition looked with suspicion on the puppet theatre is that it functioned as an exorcistical ritual (Ruizendaal, unpublished).
    • 2010, Philip Young, Ernest Hemingway: A Reconsideration, page 170:
      Even Cantwell's exorcistical gesture in building the monument to his great wound is not surprising if one accepts the claim that many neurotics overevaluate, in a magical way, the powers of the movements of the bowels.

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