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a·nath·e·ma
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| 1. | a person or thing detested or loathed: That subject is anathema to him. |
| 2. | a person or thing accursed or consigned to damnation or destruction. |
| 3. | a formal ecclesiastical curse involving excommunication. |
| 4. | any imprecation of divine punishment. |
| 5. | a curse; execration. |
[Origin: 1520–30; < L < Gk: a thing accursed, devoted to evil, orig. devoted, equiv. to ana(ti)thé(nai) to set up + -ma n. suffix
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[Late Latin anathema, doomed offering, accursed thing, from Greek, from anatithenai, anathe-, to dedicate : ana-, ana- + tithenai, to put; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.] |
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