Thesaurus: anathema

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1. n. A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed.
2. n. An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
3. n. Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.
4. n. a detested person
5. n. a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
6. 1. A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed. [They] denounce anathemas against unbelievers. Priestley. 2. An imprecation; a curse; a malediction. Finally she fled to London followed by the anathemas of both [families]. Thackeray. 3. Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority. The Jewish nation were an anathema destined to destruction. St. Paul . . . says he could wish, to save them from it, to become an anathema, and be destroyed himself. Locke. Anathema Maranatha Etym: (see 1 Cor. xvi. 22), an expression commonly considered as a highly intensified form of anathema. Maran atha is now considered as a separate sentence, meaning, "Our Lord cometh."
7. Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an anathema.-- A*nath`e*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.
8. n:100 n. a detested person n. a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication