Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Exorcist \Ex"or*cist\ (-s[i^]st), n. [L. exorcista, Gr.
'exorkisth`s: cf. F. exorciste.]
1. One who expels evil spirits by conjuration or exorcism.
Certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists. --Acts xix.
13.
2. A conjurer who can raise spirits. [R.]
Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjured up My
mortified spirit. --Shak.
Source : WordNet®
exorcist
n 1: one the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but
now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church
2: someone who practices exorcism [syn: {exorciser}]