Word Meanings - ANATHEMATIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To pronounce an anathema against; to curse. Hence: To condemn publicly as something accursed. Milton.

Related words: (words related to ANATHEMATIZE)

• PUBLICLY
  1. With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made. 2. In the name of the community. Addison.
• ANATHEMATISM
  Anathematization. We find a law of Justinian forbidding anathematisms to be pronounced against the Jewish Hellenists. J. Taylor.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• CURSE
  1. An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction. Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses. Shak. 2. Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or
• CONDEMNER
  One who condemns or censures.
• ANATHEMATIZE
  To pronounce an anathema against; to curse. Hence: To condemn publicly as something accursed. Milton.
• PRONOUNCER
  One who pronounces, utters, or declares; also, a pronouncing book.
• CURSEDLY
  In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously.
• CONDEMNED
  1. Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation. 2. Used for condemned persons. Richard Savage . . . had lain with fifty pounds weight of irons on his legs
• CURSED
  Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable. Let us fly this cursed place. Milton. This cursed quarrel be no more renewed. Dryden.
• ANATHEMATIZER
  One who pronounces an anathema. Hammond.
• SOMETHING
  , adv. In some degree; somewhat; to some exrent; at some distance. Shak. I something fear my father's wrath. Shak. We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly. Burke. My sense of touch is something coarse. Tennyson.
• ANATHEMATIC; ANATHEMATICAL
  Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an anathema. -- A*nath`e*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• PRONOUNCE
  1. To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly. Earle. 2. To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence. Dr. H. More.
• CURSER
  One who curses.
• HENCE
  ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
• PRONOUNCEABLE
  Capable of being pronounced.
• PRONOUNCED
  Strongly marked; unequivocal; decided. Note: views became every day more pronounced. Thackeray.
• CONDEMN
  To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain. Syn. -- To blame; censure; reprove; reproach; upbraid; reprobate; convict; doom; sentence; adjudge. (more info) 1. To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• PRECONDEMN
  To condemn beforehand. -- Pre*con`dem*na"tion, n.
• MISPRONOUNCE
  To pronounce incorrectly.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• PRECURSE
  A forerunning. Shak.
• SELF-CONDEMNATION
  Condemnation of one's self by one's own judgment.
• THENCE
  see -wards) thennes, thannes , AS. thanon, thanan, thonan; akin to OHG. dannana, dannan, danan, and G. 1. From that place. "Bid him thence go." Chaucer. When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Mark
• ARCHENCEPHALA
  The division that includes man alone. R. Owen.
• THENCEFORTH
  From that time; thereafter. If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing. Matt. v. 13. Note: This word is sometimes preceded by from, -- a redundancy sanctioned by custom. Chaucer. John. xix. 12.