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anathemas
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anathema \A*nath"e*ma\, n.; pl. Anathemas. [L. anath[e^]ma, fr. Gr. ? anything devoted, esp. to evil, a curse; also L. anath[=e]ma, fr. Gr. ? a votive offering; all fr. ? to set up as a votive gift, dedicate; ? up + ? to set. See Thesis.]
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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.
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An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
Finally she fled to London followed by the anathemas of both [families].
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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
--1 Cor. xvi. 22), an expression commonly considered as a highly intensified form of anathema. Maran atha is now considered as a separate sentence, meaning, ``Our Lord cometh.''
Wiktionary
n. (plural of anathema English)
Usage examples of "anathemas".
With equal haste and violence, the Oriental synod of fifty bishops degraded Cyril and Memnon from their episcopal honors, condemned, in the twelve anathemas, the purest venom of the Apollinarian heresy, and described the Alexandrian primate as a monster, born and educated for the destruction of the church.
And if his attack upon Christianity were mere sound and fury, signifying nothing, then there would be no call for anathemas from the sacred desk.
One somehow enjoys, with the malice that is native to man, the spectacle of anathemas batted back.
The anathemas of the church were fortified by a sort of civil excommunication.
With equal haste and violence, the Oriental synod of fifty bishops degraded Cyril and Memnon from their episcopal honors, condemned, in the twelve anathemas, the purest venom of the Apollinarian heresy, and described the Alexandrian primate as a monster, born and educated for the destruction of the church.
The general, and, as it should seem, the unconstrained voice of the fathers, accepted the faith and even the anathemas of Cyril.
The victims were no longer subject to his power, and the vehement style of his edicts could only proclaim their damnation, and invite the clergy of the East to join in a full chorus of curses and anathemas.
By this charter of security, the ecclesiastical and civil tyranny of the Melchites was destroyed: ^109 the anathemas of St.
A synod of bishops was instantly convened to debate this important question: the rashness of these clandestine anathemas was generally condemned.
The general, and, as it should seem, the unconstrained voice of the fathers, accepted the faith and even the anathemas of Cyril.
The victims were no longer subject to his power, and the vehement style of his edicts could only proclaim their damnation, and invite the clergy of the East to join in a full chorus of curses and anathemas.
The fanatic priest, holding Amorion in the westlands in defiance of Yezda and Empire alike, had hurled anathemas at Balsamon and Thorisin both for refusing to acclaim his pogrom against the Vaspurakaners driven into his territory by Yezda raiders their crime was not worshiping Phos the same way the Videssians did.
His lying anathemas raise trouble for me all through the Empire, from narrow-minded priests and over-religious laymen alike.
The fanatic priest, holding Amorion in the westlands in defiance of Yezda and Empire alike, had hurled anathemas at Balsamon and Thorisin both for refusing to acclaim his pogrom against the Vaspurakaners driven into his territory by Yezda raiders— their crime was not worshiping Phos the same way the Videssians did.
A synod of bishops was instantly convened to debate this important question: the rashness of these clandestine anathemas was generally condemned.