Anathema: Definition and part of speech

Anathema

  1. n. Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.
  2. n. A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed.
  3. n. An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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