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1535 Bible (Coverdale) Dan. ii. D The sorcerer, the charmer nor the deuell coniurer.

1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures xv. 82 This deuil-killing vertue did not lye in the priests head onely.

1682 E. Hickeringill Black Non-Conformist iii. 16 The Pope would be a Devil-driver too.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Devil-drawer, a sorry Painter.

1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. 379 There is a Devil ferking Priest.

1751 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. III 231 These Men, who are called Enchanters, Devil-Drivers, and Prophesyers.

1787 T. Swift Temple of Folly iii. 61 The devil-driving quality of these buttons so completely expelled all his vices, that..he rose the next morning purified of all his sins.

1852 B. Thorpe Northern Mythol. III. 240 At the first boiling of the water, a female neighbour came in running and crying out: ‘Ye devil-casters! ye devil-casters!’

1873 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 2 174 The doctor or devil-chaser is a person of great influence among other tribes as well as his own. The art of devil-chasing is considered a natural gift.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Dec. 6/2 A refusal to pay the fee charged by a ‘devil extractor’ for the cure of a mental disease.

1920 S. Lewis Main St. xx. 241 I refuse to subject him to any devil-chasing rites!

1926 Amer. Mercury Apr. 479/1 Our pastors and pious brethren, and..the professional devil-chasers who were imported as reinforcements from time to time.

1987 William & Mary Q. 44 119 Their kinteyaken or devil-chasing has been described sufficiently by the writer.