exorcistical
English
Etymology
exorcist + -ical
Adjective
exorcistical (not comparable)
- 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tradition looked with suspicion on the puppet theatre is that it functioned as an exorcistical ritual (Ruizendaal, unpublished).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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Synonyms
- exorcistic