by conjuration or summoning by a holy name, or by certain ceremonies; to expel (a demon) or to conjure (a demon) to depart out of a person possessed by one
ex·or·cize exorcizes exorcizing exorcized in BRIT, also use exorcise1. If you exorcize a painful or unhappy memory, you succeed in removing it from your mind. He confronted his childhood trauma and tried to exorcise the pain
To exorcize an evil spirit or to exorcize a place or person means to force the spirit to leave the place or person by means of prayers and religious ceremonies. They came to our house and exorcised me