Other forms: exorcists
An exorcist is somebody who drives out evil spirits by ritual. Send for an exorcist.
The Catholic church still appoints them and requires a medical opinion first. The word is known to most people from one film rather than from anything religious.
1nounexorcistSomebody who drives out evil spirits by ritual.
“Every diocese has an exorcist and almost none of them is ever called.”
exorcist is a person.
EXORcist → he shows it the EXIT
He walks into the room, points at the door, and tells the thing living in the boy that it is going out the exit like anybody else.
hooks ontoexit
Greek exorkistes comes from exorkizein, to bind by oath, from ex plus horkos, an oath.
Ancient Greek
ἐξορκιστής
Latin
exorcista
Middle French
exorciste
English, today
exorcist
From Middle French exorciste, from Latin exorcista, from Ancient Greek ἐξορκιστής.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA