anathematize
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Etymology edit
From anathema + -ize; the -t- is part of the root of the underlying Greek word ἀνάθεμα (anáthema) (albeit not visible in the nominative singular form), which also explains the plural anathemata and other derivations from anathema such as anathematic.
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anathematize (third-person singular simple present anathematizes, present participle anathematizing, simple past and past participle anathematized)
- (transitive) To cause to be, or to declare as, an anathema or evil.
- 1850, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in White Jacket:
- These are the fellows that some officers never pretend to damn, however much they may anathematize others.
- 1907, B. M. Bower, chapter 9, in Rowdy of the Cross L:
- Rowdy had been heard, more than once lately, to anathematize viciously the prairie-dogs for standing on their tails and chip-chip-chipping at them as they went by.
- 1914 October 11, The Sunday Times, Perth, Australia, page 1, column 9:
- "Next!" steps gingerly in to confront the medical eye fastened questioningly upon him. "Crook in the guts," he says tersely. The picturesque reports of previously treated and disgusted patients - have left him doubtful, and he casts, an 'anathematising eye upon the "Black Jack" bottle. "Tabloids and duty!" says the doctor, and the sufferer sighs with relief.
- 2009 February 13, Candace de Russy, “Madness, Thy Name Is 'Stimulus'”, in American Thinker, retrieved 21 Feb. 2009:
- Harvard economist Robert Barro anathematized it as "probably the worst bill that has been put forth since the 1930s" and, in a word, "garbage."
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to cause to be, or to declare as, an anathema
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