noun. One who exorcises evil spirits; ecclesiastical, a member of an order of ecclesiastics, which became a distinct class during the third century, whose office it was to expel evil spirits.

noun. One who calls or conjures up evil spirits.

noun. One who expels evil spirits by conjuration or exorcism.

noun. A conjurer who can raise spirits.

noun. A person, especially a priest, who practices exorcism.

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

noun. someone who practices exorcism

"From where she sat, Melissa could now see that a Christian in priest's robes, whom they called the exorcist, spoke various invocations over the sick man, the others listening so attentively that even she began to hope for some good effect from these incomprehensible formulas; and at the same time she remembered that her old slave-woman Dido, who worshiped many gods, wore round her neck, besides a variety of heathen amulets,"

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holy order  magician  necromancer  order  sorcerer  

adjuration  book-buyer  compounder  conciliator  conjuror  

acolyte  acolytus  deacon  diaconus  doorkeeper