The spiritual group worked to exorcise the evil spirits that seemed to reside in the building. From LearnThat.org.
exorcise evil spirits. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object), : to exorcise a demon. From Dictionary.com.
Greaves says he wrote the book to "exorcise" his childhood. From Wordnik.com. [CNN.com] Reference
NEW: Greaves says he wrote the book to "exorcise" his childhood. From Wordnik.com. [CNN.com] Reference
"It was a good opportunity for me to kind of exorcise those demons," Brown said. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
I don't expect to see it again, once we exorcise it. From Wordnik.com. [Tougher Than She Looks] Reference
I think that's the only way to sort of exorcise that demon. From Wordnik.com. [Caps' Brooks Laich: Pressure comes from within] Reference
They exorcise the Sudhiniyas or the drinkers of human blood. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
And he spat upon the ground, as if to exorcise the evil spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
Father Lactantius, in a terrible voice, affecting to exorcise the. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"He was trying to exorcise the demon in me," Kirker says, chuckling. From Wordnik.com. [CRISIS IN THE COMMUNION] Reference
It's almost as if they have to physically exorcise the story from their system. From Wordnik.com. [Richard C. Morais: Time to Revive Thomas Mann] Reference
But to exorcise the demons for good, they'll have to top the St. Louis Cardinals. From Wordnik.com. [NEWSMAKERS] Reference
Formerly an iron ring carried on the wrist to exorcise the evil spirits was his only ornament. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
They called two local priests, who spent 10 months trying to exorcise the young woman's demons. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil in Pictures] Reference
If maternity would indeed exorcise the Invader, Milly had lost no time in beginning the exorcism. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
Nor could he exorcise the summer breeze that kept wafting through the crevices in his common sense. From Wordnik.com. [The Servant Problem] Reference
Lopez reportedly told friends she once slid snakes down her daughter's throat to exorcise the demons. From Wordnik.com. [The Death Of Little Elisa] Reference
"We bring blessings to the village and villagers, and exorcise evil spirits," the performer explains. From Wordnik.com. [William Dalrymple's "Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India"] Reference
They exorcise ghosts, train monkeys, bears and tigers for exhibition, and sell ornaments of base metal. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
When we go into Starbucks and start our Christmas carols, I exorcise the demons from the cash registers. From Wordnik.com. [Business: What Would Jesus Buy?] Reference
Those needles with which he punctured the flanks of his swine and cattle: what devils did they exorcise?. From Wordnik.com. [Blind Man's Lantern] Reference
But the suffering hasn't stopped, as the family tries to shut out its nightmares and exorcise its demons. From Wordnik.com. [Books: The Ultimate Survivor] Reference
They believe in witches, who they think drink the blood of children, and employ sorcerers to exorcise them. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
He said a bit of a prayer, as much as any atheist could, to exorcise homosexual inclinations from his brain. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
Inveterate violators of basic human rights, they often transform into the very demons they helped to exorcise. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
If you're going to exorcise the ghosts from the European continent, you need to bring such people to The Hague. From Wordnik.com. ['The Net Is Tightening'] Reference
So the rector of Lanreath decided at last to appeal to Parson Dodge to come over and exorcise the wandering spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Legend Land, Volume 2 Being a Collection of Some of The Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by The Great Western Railway] Reference
They had been seen talking together secretly, doubtless discussing what medicine they could give him to exorcise the demon. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
He flung the thought from him with a laugh as he picked himself up, but it persisted in spite of his efforts to exorcise it. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
The worship and the priest's office (Shaman, Shamanism) consist here chiefly in the use of charms, to exorcise a dreaded power. From Wordnik.com. [A Comparative View of Religions] Reference
Mather received one of them into his house for the purpose of making experiments, and, if possible, to exorcise the evil spirits. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
To exorcise gout, he used incantations, these being either oral or written on a thin sheet of gold during the waning of the moon. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference
Like many of his World War II generation, he mourned the national malaise left by Vietnam, and he longed for a chance to exorcise it. From Wordnik.com. ['This Will Not Stand.'] Reference
“Even so,” said Bakahenzie obstinately, “does the sick man exorcise the good medicine lest an enemy hath made magic thereupon?”. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
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