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exorcize
(exorcizes, exorcizing, exorcized) Note: in BRIT, also use 'exorcise' 1. If you exorcize a painful or unhappy memory, you succeed in removing it from your mind. He confronted his childhood trauma and tried to exorcise the pain... VERB: V n 2. To exorcize an evil spirit or to exorcize a place or person means to force the spirit to leave the place or person by means of prayers and religious ceremonies. They came to our house and exorcised me... VERB: V n
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2.
v.tr. (also -ise) 1 expel (a supposed evil spirit) by invocation or by use of a holy name. 2 (often foll. by of) free (a person or place) of a supposed evil spirit. Derivatives exorcism n. exorcist n. exorcization n. Etymology: F exorciser or eccl.L exorcizare f. Gk exorkizo (as EX-(2), horkos oath) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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v. заклинать, изгонять злых духов (from/out) The priests had to exorcize the devil from the body of the young girl, with bell, book, and candle. ...Англо-русский словарь
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also -ise BrE v to force evil spirits to leave a place or someone's body by using special words and ceremonies (prayers to exorcize ghosts) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
5.
- 14c., from Gk. exorkizein "exorcize, bind by oath," from ex- "out of" + horkizein "cause to swear," from horkos "oath." Exorcist, with a sense of "one who drives out evil spirits," first recorded in Eng. c.1384. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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