0 to force an evil spirit to leave a person or place by using prayers or magic: --
1 to get rid of someone or something evil --
The insertion of the word "reasonably" into the clause would ensure that those who exorcise the powers might think twice.
We shall exorcise a potential threat of conflict which might endanger the future of us all.
What if that ugly threat were removed, and unemployment began to come down—where, then, her claim to have somehow exorcised inflation out of the body economic once and for all?
Clearly there are great fears to be exorcised; fears, if you like, based on history, and in that sense not altogether unworthy, but nevertheless irrational fears.
If one exorcises something, it has gone for good.
I readily concede that we have not yet exorcised the spectre of inflation.
There is an unconsolable grief which cannot be exorcised.
Cannot such problems he exorcised only by the truth?
