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Definition of Anathema
1. Noun. A detested person. "He is an anathema to me"
2. Noun. A formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication.
Definition of Anathema
1. n. A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed.
Definition of Anathema
1. Noun. A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; denunciation of anything as accursed. ¹
2. Noun. An imprecation; a curse; a malediction. ¹
3. Noun. Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anathema
1. a formal ecclesiastical ban or curse [n -MAS or -MATA]
Medical Definition of Anathema
1. Origin: L. Anathma, fr. Gr. Anything devoted, esp. To evil, a curse; also L. Anathma, 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 anathem as against unbelievers." (Priestley) 2. An imprecation; a curse; a malediction. "Finally she fled to London followed by the anathem as 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), an expression commonly considered as a highly intensified form of anathema. Maran atha is now considered as a separate sentence, meaning, "Our Lord cometh." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anathema
Literary usage of Anathema
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1912)
"Whosoever shall say, that the Son is not begotten of the Father, essentially and
eternally, let him be anathema. III. Whosoever shall say that the Son of ..."
2. The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1871)
"... anathema sit. Or finally, that God is universal or indefinite ... divided into
general species and individuals ; let birn be anathema. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"anathema, a word used in a form of excommunication from the Church. It is properly
a Greek word, and was originally applied to an object set apart and ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1870)
"Whosoever says the Church of Divine Promises is not an external and visible
community-, but a purely internal and invisible one, let him DO anathema. ..."
5. The Epistle to the Galatians by George Gillanders Findlay (1891)
"THE anathema. " I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from him that called
you in the grace of Christ unto a different gospel; which is not another ..."
6. A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Philip Schaff, Henry Wace (1899)
""If any man says that the substance of (¡od is expanded and contracted : let him
be anathema. VII. "If any man says that the expanded substance of God makes ..."
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