Associations to the word «Anathema»

Wiktionary

ANATHEMA, noun. A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed.
ANATHEMA, noun. By extension, something which is vehemently disliked by somebody.
ANATHEMA, noun. An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
ANATHEMA, noun. Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.

Dictionary definition

ANATHEMA, noun. A detested person; "he is an anathema to me".
ANATHEMA, noun. A formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope