Definition of Anathemize

1. Verb. Wish harm upon; invoke evil upon. "The bad witch cursed the child"


2. Verb. Curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment. "Sam and Sue anathemize the movie "

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anathemize

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Literary usage of Anathemize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Studien zur englischen Philologie (1902)
"E. bannan meant 'to summon', and Murray, NED thinks the senses 'to curse, anathemize, interdict', occurring first in north, dial., may be from Scand. ..."

2. European Reminiscences, Musical and Otherwise: Being the Recollections of by Louis Charles Elson (1914)
"... ready to say with Mercutio—"A plague on both the houses," and anathemize any thermometric system which countenanced freezing the marrow in one's bones. ..."

3. "My Memoirs of Georgia Politics," by Rebecca Latimer Felton (1911)
"What terms did he employ to stigmatize and anathemize the person who took a solemn oath to affix the brand of infamy upon a man who now asseverated his ..."

4. Memoirs of General Lafayette and of the French Revolution of 1830 by Bernard Sarrans (1833)
"They then endeavoured to anathemize republican institutions. These words, said they, signify nothing more than jacquerie, jacobinism, ..."

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