The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anathematize \A*nath"e*ma*tize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Anathematized; p. pr. & vb. n. Anathematizing.] [L.
anathematizare, Gr. ? to devote, make accursed: cf. F.
anath['e]matiser.]
To pronounce an anathema against; to curse. Hence: To condemn
publicly as something accursed.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to pronounce an anathema against," 1560s, from French anathématiser (Old French anatemer), from Latin anathematizare, from Greek anathematizein "to devote (to evil)," from stem of anathema. Alternative anathemize (1670s) is less correct and more rare. Related: Anathematized; anathematizing.
Wiktionary
alt. (context transitive English) To cause to be, or to declare as, an anathema or evil. vb. (context transitive English) To cause to be, or to declare as, an anathema or evil.
WordNet
v. curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment [syn: execrate, anathemize, comminate, anathemise, anathematise]
Usage examples of "anathematize".
In the works even of those mystics who efface the limits between things human and divine, who put Judaism, Christianity, and Paganism on the same line with the revelation of Mohammed, and who are therefore duly anathematized by the whole orthodox world, almost every page testifies to the relation of the ideas enounced with Mohammedan civilization.
Young couples would purchase that property, they would take up occupancy, they would quarrel, the quarreling would escalate to shouting and table-pounding, they would anathematize each other, and, presto, they would move out, not together but separately.
After reading a certain amount of manuscript verse one is disposed to anathematize the inventor of homophonous syllabification.
And yet, O Fanatic, thou didst anathematize the Duellist as the Man of blood: what is the Assassin?
As Zionists, they are committed to the destruction of the Western Civilization, and in this they sympathize with Russia, with China, with Japan, with the Arabs, and as such they anathematize Germany, which is the mind and heart of the Western Civilization.
We excommunicate and anathematize all heretics, Catharists, Sectaries .
Its author was already so thoroughly anathematized that further curses from eternal Rome would seem petty.
Brownpony could only heap more ecclesiastical sanctions upon an already excommunicated and anathematized Filpeo Harq Hannegan and his uncle, the apostle of Platonic friendship and other deviations from orthodoxy.
Without the art of divination, one might foretel, that so gross and impious a blasphemy would not fail to be anathematized by the people.
Everywhere Bonaparte was anathematized and in Moscow nothing but the coming war was talked of.
After Dorselblad had pranced up and down a platform with a belligerently waving codpiece, after he had exhorted, demanded and anathematized, Clarissima Strunt would come forward.
It was barely possible that I was unjustly anathematizing these gentlemen, that, while they were peacefully sleeping, thieves had broken in below.
We have been in the habit of exclaiming very loudly against the war, execrating its cruelty and anathematizing its results, as though the cruelty were all superfluous and the results unnecessary.
Avignon Popes, and these weighty documents deal with witchcraft in the fullest detail, anathematizing all such abominations.
Meanwhile, defining and systematizing went on, loose notions hardened into rigid dogmas, free thought was hampered by authority, the scheme generally received assumed the title of orthodox, anathematizing all who dared to dissent, and the fundamental outlines of the patristic eschatology were firmly established.