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   Anathema , n.; pl. Anathemas . [L. anathĕma, fr. Gr.  anything devoted, esp. to evil, a curse; also L. anathēma, fr. Gr.  a votive offering; all fr.  to set up as a votive gift, dedicate;  up +  to set. See Thesis.]
   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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   [They] denounce anathemas against unbelievers.
   Priestley.
   
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   An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
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   Finally she fled to London followed by the anathemas of both [families].
   Thackeray.
   
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   Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.
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   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.
   
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   Anathema Maranatha  (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.”
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