Anathema

n.	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 an expression commonly considered as a highly intensified form of anathema. Maran atha is now considered as a separate sentence, meaning, "Our Lord cometh." - 1 Cor. xvi. 22

Noun	1.	anathema - a detested person; "he is an anathema to me" Synonyms: bete noire
	2.	anathema - a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication

ANATHEMA, eccl. law. A punishment by which a person is separate from, the body of the church, and forbidden all intercourse with the faithful: it differs from excommunication, which simply forbids the person excommunicated, from going into the church and communicating with the faithful. Gal. 1. 8, 9.

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