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A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed.

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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. Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an anathema.-- A*nath`e*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.
  7. n:100 n. a detested person n. a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication