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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Anathema \A*nath"e*ma\, n.; pl {Anathemas}. [L. anath?ma, fr Gr ? anything devoted, esp. to evil, a curse; also L. anath?ma, fr Gr ? a votive offering; all fr ? to set up as a votive gift, dedicate; ? up + ? to set See {Thesis}.] 1. A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed. [They] denounce anathemas against unbelievers. --Priestley. 2. An imprecation; a curse; a malediction. Finally she fled to London followed by the anathemas of both [families]. --Thackeray. 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}(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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