Usually means: Ritual expulsion of possessing spirits.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. exorcism: Merriam-Webster
  2. exorcism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exorcism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exorcism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. exorcism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Exorcism, exorcism: Wordnik
  7. exorcism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. exorcism: Wiktionary
  9. exorcism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. exorcism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. exorcism: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Exorcism, exorcism: Dictionary.com
  13. exorcism: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Exorcism (disambiguation), Exorcism (song), Exorcism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Exorcism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. exorcism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. exorcism: Rhymezone
  18. Exorcism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. exorcism: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. exorcism: FreeDictionary.org
  21. exorcism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. exorcism: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. exorcism: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exorcism: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Exorcism: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  3. exorcism: The Skeptic's Dictionary
  4. Third Eye's Paranormal (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exorcism: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See exorcisms as well.)

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noun:  The ritual act of driving out evil spirits from persons, places or things that are possessed by them.

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