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anathema [Gr.,=something set up; dedicated to a divinity as a votive offering], term that came to denote something devoted to a divinity for destruction. In the Bible, the term is herem. Anathema means "accursed" in the New Testament, where it clearly suggests separation from God as the penalty. In the early Church and in Judaism contemporaneous with it, it was a penalty conveyed by a decree of excommunication .

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Anathema. A sentence of separation from a Christian congregation. The word is the equivalent of Heb. ḥerem.

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anathema curse; accursed thing. XVI. — ecclL. anathema — Gr. anáthema accursed thing (Rom. 9: 3).
So anathematize XVI. — F. — ecclL. — Gr.

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