Thesaurus: anathema
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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Definitions
- n. A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed.
- n. An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
- n. Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.
- n. a detested person
- n. a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
- Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an anathema.-- A*nath`e*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.
- n:100 n. a detested person n. a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication