exorcist

1. 1.

   one of the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church

   BroaderHoly Order
2. 2.

   someone who practices exorcism

   Synonymsexorciser

   Broadersorcerer

Other forms of exorcist

plural

exorcists·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about exorcist

What does exorcist mean?

exorcist means "one of the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in exorcist?

exorcist has 3 syllables: ex-or-cist. The stress falls on "ex". In IPA it is /ˈɛksɚsəst/.

What is another word for exorcist?

Close synonyms include exorciser. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is exorcist a common word?

exorcist is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.