But, since exorcisms were found at times ineffectual, other means were sought, and especially fetiches of various sorts.
What the exorcisms and fetiches and prayers and processions, and drinking of holy water, and ringing of bells, had been unable to accomplish during eighteen hundred years, he achieved in a few months.
The exorcisms accomplished so little that popular faith in them grew small, and the main effect of the pilgrimages seemed to be to increase the disorder by subjecting great crowds to the diabolic contagion.
The Treasury of Exorcisms contains hundreds of pages packed with the vilest epithets which the worst imagination could invent for the purpose of overwhelming the indwelling Satan.
Scarcely less startling manuals continued even later in use; and exorcisms adapted to every emergency may of course still be found in all the Benedictionals of the Church, even the latest.
He commanded loudly that a book of exorcisms be brought, and under a previous arrangement, his attendants brought him a copy of Virgil.
Remedies were tried upon a large scale-exorcisms first, but especially pilgrimages to the shrine of St. Vitus.
Sorcerers, among the Moi, fall into two categories, those who are gifted with the faculty of divination whereby the guilty can be detected, and those whose exorcisms are confined and directed to the healing of disease.
The exorcisms of the "Padjao" directed towards expelling disease from the bodies of the Cham are too similar to those of the Moi sorceress to merit description, which would be little more than repetition.
Of his exegetical writings we have still his Comm.
The monophysite standpoint of the author betrays itself in his tendency to think of the human nature of Christ as absorbed by the divine.
The priests were continually employed in exorcisms against the wicked spirits.
And although our religious did not cease in their exorcisms and prayers, the infernal spirits were stubborn and pertinacious.
The father began the exorcismsof the church; and the evil spirit talked--a thing that he had not done before--and said many things in many languages.
The knowledge of such exorcisms was in the hands of the priests, so that priest and magician were almost synonymous terms.
Charms and exorcisms used for curing diseases; the knotted cord and leaves from a sacred book; repute of the witch and wizard, 120-1.
Some of the incantations embodied in the collection of exorcisms must have been introduced into it subsequently to the compilation of the sacred hymns, since the latter are found inserted in them.
If we may compare the two collections with our own religious literature, we may say that the collection of hymns corresponded more to our Bible, that of exorcisms to our Prayer Book.
Where would that Tuscan boric acid industry have been now had merely the lamentations of landowners, fears of the people, andexorcisms of the priests been continued?
One great cause of the hardening of these infidels is, the frequent impostures which the Romanists obtrude on the world in their exorcisms and pretended miracles.
Among all afflictions, the state of being possessed by devils occupies the most remarkable place in the annals of the Church, and is seen to have required the most powerful exorcisms for its cure.
A treatise on exorcisms of locusts, weevils, rats, mice, and birds.
Every untoward event furnished an occasion for their intervention, which could be averted or repelled only by the benedictions, exorcisms or anathemas of the Church.
Exorcisms and conjurations are not only to be spoken over the patient, but also to be written on slips of consecrated paper and applied, like a plaster, to the parts especially affected.
But hear another Device: They drew a long Rope over the Ground, and then hurrying from one Place to another, as though they were beat off by the Exorcisms of Faunus, they threw down both the Priest and holy Water-Pot all together.
In the first Place he got together the most powerfulExorcisms that he could get, and added some new ones to them, as the Bowels of the Virgin Mary, and the Bones of St. Winifred.
For the same reason exorcisms were usually practised by the clergy in Latin; and so Toby, in the "Night Walker" of Beaumont and Fletcher (ii.
At last it was found necessary to drive away these mischievous guests, who were equally inaccessible to the exorcisms of the priests and the remedies of the physicians.
It is a curious circumstance that James seemingly recognized the reliability of the Romish exorcisms which the Church of England was about that time beginning to attack.
At this time all France was talking of the terrible fate of the Ursuline nuns at Loudun, who were manifestly possessed by the devil, and of the wonderful exorcisms whereby certain holy men were able to overcome his wiles and machinations.
The case of the nuns of Loudun has never been satisfactorily explained; the "possessions" and exorcisms were witnessed by a large number of persons, none of whom were able to convict the nuns of fraud.
There are specialexorcisms and preventive measures to interfere with the fairies in their quest of infants.
Routed by the simplest remedies, by exorcisms after Moliere, the terror of the Middle Ages would flee away and vanish utterly!
They say that you can make yourself invisible when you like, and exorcisms are made and prayers offered daily, so that in future you may be seen and arrested.
It ought now to be clear that both pre-Christian and Christian exorcisms among Celts have shaped the Fairy-Faith in a very fundamental manner.
Crooke reports similar exorcisms and charms to cure and to protect cattle.
The bailiff gave Grandier a statement of the conclusions at which he had arrived, and told him that the exorcisms had been performed that day by Barre, armed with the authority of the Bishop of Poitiers himself.
At first he was kept at the far end of the hall, to allow time for the exorcisms to have their full effect, then he was brought forward to the bar and ordered to kneel down.
It was impossible to continue the exorcisms other nuns might be tempted to follow the example, of the superior and Sister Claire, and in that case all would be lost.
They repaired, therefore, to the convent, intending to make a thorough investigation as to the reality of the possession and as to the efficacy of the exorcisms employed.
It being now nine o'clock in the morning, the hour when the exorcisms began, the bailiff went over at once to the convent, and found Barre half way through the mass, and the superior in convulsions.
It had, however, been discovered by means of exorcismsthat a new compact, of which the symbol and token was a bunch of roses, had been concluded, the symbol and token of the first having been three black thorns.
They came, and with them some burgesses of note of St. Avold; and neither before nor after the exorcisms did they see or hear anything, except that the servant girl seemed to be pushed violently, and the doors were roughly knocked at.
The exorcisms lasted more than three months, and only serve to prove more and more the fact of the possession.
From the time the exorcisms were made at Vervins, they wanted to kill the possessed, with the priest who exorcised her, in a journey they made her take to Nôtre Dame de Liesse.
The thing went on to such a point that they were obliged to proceed against him by (ecclesiastical) censures, and to constrain him by exorcisms to go out of the country.
After some exorcisms had been made at Vervins, they took her to Laon, where the bishop undertook her.
He came with four other secular curés, and continued the exorcisms for three days, without any success.
Exorcisms and other prayers of the church have always been employed against these, and with success.
The poor sufferer was torn from the hands of nine or ten men, who could hardly retain their hold of her; and on the last day of the exorcisms sixteen could not succeed in so doing.
Some of the prescriptions given here are accompanied by exorcisms which were to be used at the same time.
All sorts of disgusting doses are administered, and incantations and exorcisms are among the most effective methods of healing.
Sometimes the family insists that one of the priests shall ascend a ladder, the rounds of which are formed of swords or knives with the sharp edge uppermost, and go through his exorcisms at the top.
So long as disease was attributed to a demoniacal cause, so long did exorcisms and other miraculous cures continue, and so far as these cures were efficacious, they must be classed as mental healing.
The exorcisms had to be repeated by the victims of witchcraft.
She it was who was dreaded by the people like the witches and “street-walkers,” who ministered before her, and against whom exorcisms of all kinds were employed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exorcisms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
