ANATHEMA


Meaning of ANATHEMA in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ə-ˈna-thə-mə ]

noun

Etymology: Late Latin anathemat-, anathema, from Greek, thing devoted to evil, curse, from anatithenai to set up, dedicate, from ana- + tithenai to place, set — more at do

Date: 1526

1.

a. : one that is cursed by ecclesiastical authority

b. : someone or something intensely disliked or loathed — usually used as a predicate nominative

this notion was anathema to most of his countrymen — S. J. Gould

2.

a. : a ban or curse solemnly pronounced by ecclesiastical authority and accompanied by excommunication

b. : the denunciation of something as accursed

c. : a vigorous denunciation : curse

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