Anathema



GRE 蓝宝 Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 诅咒
• ［英］ n. 诅咒 ( a solemn ecclesiastical condemnation)
• ［类］ anathema : curse / theocracy : state ( anathema是神的诅咒 / theocracy是神权政权) 反义词: panegyric ( 颂词)
• ［记］ 联想记忆: ana-them-a, 骂他们啊 -> 诅咒

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Etymology: Late Latin anathemat-, anathema, from Greek, thing devoted to evil, curse, from anatithenai to set up, dedicate, from ana- + tithenai to place, set — more at do
• Date: 1526
• 1.
  • a. one that is cursed by ecclesiastical authority
  • b. someone or something intensely disliked or loathed — usually used as a predicate nominativethis notion was anathema to most of his countrymen — S. J. Gould
• 2.
  • a. a ban or curse solemnly pronounced by ecclesiastical authority and accompanied by excommunication
  • b. the denunciation of something as accursed
  • c. a vigorous denunciation ; curse

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