anathematize
verb (used with object)
to pronounce an anathema against; denounce; curse.
anathematise
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a variation of
anathematize.
Example Sentences
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This compliment, which could be interpreted as an acknowledgment of a corporeal God, appeased the wrath of the monks, but they compelled Theophilus to anathematise the writings of Origines.
From A Treatise on Relics by John Calvin
He slept well, too, with never a thought of the Saturday express which he had lain awake on other nights to lament and anathematise.
From Truxton King A Story of Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon
But Anastasius, bribed by the Alexandrian patriarch John II. with two thousand pounds of gold, required that he should anathematise this council.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
For my part, I utterly repudiate and anathematise the intruder....
From God and the World A Survey of Thought by Arthur William Robinson
But try as I might to anathematise them in the name of God, my heart felt like breaking and no words would come.
From Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
