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Noun
/əˈnaTHəmə/,
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anathemas, plural;
  1. Something or someone that one vehemently dislikes
    • - racial hatred was anathema to her
  2. A formal curse by a pope or a council of the Church, excommunicating a person or denouncing a doctrine

  3. A strong curse
    • - the sergeant clutched the ruined communicator, muttering anathemas
  1. a detested person; "he is an anathema to me"
  2. a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
  3. Anathema (from Koine Greek ἀνάθεμα "something dedicated, especially dedicated to evil” from ἀνατίθημι anatithēmi, "I set upon, offer as a votive gift") originally meant something lifted up as an offering to the gods; it later evolved to mean: # to be formally set apart; # banished, exiled, ...
  4. Anathema are an English band from Liverpool primarily known for helping to develop the death/doom and gothic metal sound. Later in their career, beginning with Eternity, they moved away from this sound into more melodic, atmospheric rock.
  5. (Anathemas) are by far the most powerful and loathsome of yuan-ti, worshiped as divine incarnations of Merrshaulk. They are truly bizarre in appearance, with a body made of hundreds of snakes entwined together to hold up a gargantuan snake head. ...
  6. (Gr.: a curse, suspension). The spiritual suspension with which the church may expel a person from her community for various reasons, especially denial of the faith or other mortal sins. ...
  7. The Greek word for cursed or condemned, as used in the King James Version. "If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha" (1 Cor. 16:22 KJV).
  8. (ah NATH e-ma) noun. Someone or something cursed, reviled or shunned.
  9. A condemnation. Although not in popular use today, the Church would condemn via Canons specific false beliefs as promoted by heretics. Vatican II departed from the traditional method of Canons by using a prose style for its documents. ...
  10. 1. A detested person or thing. 2. A curse of the Church, excommunicating someone or denouncing a doctrine, or a person or thing so cursed. Her new boyfriend is anathema to me.
  11. A Greek term originally used to mean something set up, devoted, to God (e.g., Luke 21:5, “dedicated”), but later came to mean the opposite, something cursed (as in Lev 27:28-29).
  12. A formal condemnation by the Church of a certain theological position that is contrary to Catholic faith and morals.
  13. A condemnation of heretics, similar in effect to major excommunication. It inflicts the penalty of complete exclusion from Christian society.
  14. A thing given over to evil; that pronouncement by which the Church declares a person to be out of her communion, particularly because of the denial of a truth of faith; an excommunication.
  15. The most severe form of excommunication. It includes a solemn ecclesiastical curse. This can happen automatically. For example, according to the Council of Trent, any person who believes that Christians are saved by faith alone is automatically anathematized. ...
  16. A curse or condemnation placed upon another Witch. A Witch who has betrayed the Craft or their vows but not to the christians and therefore is not a warlock.
  17. (compare to excommunication, shun)
  18. The 13 Kindred on the Red List.
  19. (n) anything greatly detested; a ban or curse. This time the prefix (ana-) means upward, and anathema orginally meant a thing set up to the gods. Today it always means a curse, a devine punishment, or something hated and scorned.
  20. This is a person or thing that is hated or despised