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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ANATH'EMATIZE, v.t. To excommunicate with a denunciation of curses; to pronounce an anathema against.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment [syn: accurse, execrate, anathemize, comminate, anathemise, anathematize, anathematise]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-tized; -tizing) Date: 1566 to pronounce an anathema upon

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. & intr. (also -ise) curse. Etymology: F anathématiser f. L anathematizare f. Gk anathematizo (as ANATHEMA)

Webster's 1913 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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. Curse, maledict, denounce, imprecate, execrate, fulminate against, proscribe, ban, excommunicate. II. v. a. Curse, maledict, denounce, imprecate, execrate, fulminate against, proscribe, ban, excommunicate. III. v. n. Curse, utter anathemas, fulminate, ban.