- anathema
- A person or thing cursed; a curse.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
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Anathema — Anathema … Deutsch Wörterbuch
Anathema — • Placed on high, suspended, set aside Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Anathema Anathema † … Catholic encyclopedia
Anathema — (in Greek Ανάθεμα) meaning originally something lifted up as an offering to the gods; later, with evolving meanings, it came to mean: # to be formally set apart, # banished, exiled, excommunicated or # denounced, sometimes… … Wikipedia
Anathema — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Para el vocablo griego, véase Anatema. Anathema Anathema tocando en vivo en España en 2007 … Wikipedia Español
Anathema — Фестиваль Festimad 2007, Мадрид … Википедия
Anathema — sur scène en 2007. Pays d’origine Liverpool … Wikipédia en Français
ANATHEMA — ut et Devotio ac Sacrum, interdum rem pietatis ergo Numini sacratam, interdum diris onustam denotat; cum scil. utraque devovebatur, haec ut malorum Vindici, illa ut bonorum Auctori Conservatorique. Unde et Hebraeum Cherem, seu Anathema aut… … Hofmann J. Lexicon universale
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}.] 1. A ban or… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
anathema — (n.) 1520s, an accursed thing, from L. anathema an excommunicated person; the curse of excommunication, from Gk. anathema a thing accursed, originally a thing devoted, lit. a thing set up (to the gods), from ana up (see ANA (Cf. ana )) + tithenai … Etymology dictionary
anathema — 1. The meaning has changed over several centuries of use. Originally a Greek word meaning ‘a thing dedicated’ it then came to mean ‘a thing dedicated to evil; an accursed thing’ and then, in the context of the Christian Church, ‘the act or… … Modern English usage
Anathēma — Anathēma, 1) (gr. Ant.), ein, einer Gottheit geweihtes Geschenk, bes. Kränze, Gewänder, Gefäße, erbeutete Waffen, Kunstwerke etc., um, mit Inschriften versehen, od. von einer Votivtafel od. einem Gemälde begleitet, im Tempel niedergelegt od.… … Pierer's Universal-Lexikon
