| anathema | |
| 1. n. (ecclesiastical, historical) A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed. | |
| 2. n. (by extension) Something which is vehemently disliked by somebody. | |
| 3. n. (literary) An imprecation; a curse; a malediction. | |
| 4. n. (ecclesiastical) Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority. | |
| 5. n. , year=1885 | |
| 6. n. , title=Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers | |
| 7. n. , editor=Philip Schaff | |
| 8. n. , series=II | |
| 9. n. , volume=III | |
| 10. n. , chapter=The Anathemas of Cyril in Opposition to Nestorius | |
| 11. n. , passage=If any one refuses to confess that the Word of God the Father is united in hypostasis to flesh, and is one Christ with His own flesh, the same being at once both God and man, let him be anat | |
