3. Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority. 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. Anathema Maranatha Etym: (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."
ANATHEMATIC; ANATHEMATICAL
A*nath`e*mat"ic, A*nath`e*mat"ic*al, a.
Defn: Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an anathema.
— A*nath`e*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.
ANATHEMATISM
A*nath"e*ma*tism, n. Etym: [Gr. anathématisme.]
Defn: Anathematization. [Obs.] We find a law of Justinian forbidding anathematisms to be pronounced against the Jewish Hellenists. J. Taylor.
ANATHEMATIZATION
A*nath`e*ma*ti*za"tion, n. Etym: [LL. anathematisatio.]
Defn: The act of anathematizing, or denouncing as accursed; imprecation. Barrow.
ANATHEMATIZE
A*nath"e*ma*tize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Anathematized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Anathematizing.] Etym: [L. anathematizare, Gr. anathématiser.]
Defn: To pronounce an anathema against; to curse. Hence: To condemn publicly as something accursed. Milton.
ANATHEMATIZER
A*nath"e*ma*ti`zer, n.