The rhetorical element must be exorcised.
If the wrong spirit can be exorcised, there is hope that the quarrel will end in a general desire for reconciliation.
So the water when it is exorcised and becomes baptismal, not only drives out the evil principle, but also contracts a power of hallowing."
He acquired a reputation as a worker of miracles, and on this ground was sent to Rome as an envoy, where (legend tells) he exorcised from the emperor's daughter a demon who had obligingly entered the lady to enable Simon to effect his miracle.
The king was exorcised, and the exorcists of the kingdom were called upon to put stringent questions to the devils they cast out.
