Meanings
- pluralplural of anathema
[...] and, if here and there complaints were heard, they were invariably anathemata against the misguided compositors.
1870, The Newspaper Press, volume 4, page 1032 more examples
The city of Lyons is, we believe, one of the two places in the world (Boston, U.S., being the other) which have issued their anathemata against chloroform, and declared that ether is the only orthodox and permissible agent for the induction of anæsthesia.
1867, The British Journal of Dental Science, page 381But the eye-glasses which he wore, and to which he was wont to speak as he poured out his anathemata against Exeter Hall and all the motley crew of missionaries, if they did not make Samson see better, served as so much valuable compensation for the incompetency of favoured, ungrateful listeners.
1894, John Coming Chinaman, Bright Celestials: The Chinaman at Home and Abroad, London, page 238
Origin
- Ancient Greekἀναθέματα
- Latinanathemata
- Englishanathemata
Borrowed from Latin anathemata, from Ancient Greek ἀναθέματα (anathémata).
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