ANATHEMA
\ɐnˈaθəmə], \ɐnˈaθəmə], \ɐ_n_ˈa_θ_ə_m_ə]\
Definitions of ANATHEMA
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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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An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
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Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.
By Oddity Software
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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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An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
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Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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(orig.) An offering made and set up in a temple: an ecclesiastical curse: any person or thing anathematized.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Greek] An offering to some deity, hung up in a temple a curse pronounced by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication.
By Thomas Sheridan
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