sb. Obs. [a. Fr. anathème (12th c. in Littré), ad. L. anathema: see next. Rhymes with them in Sylvester, with dream in Drummond.]
1. One accursed. = ANATHEMA 1. rare.
c. 1555. Harpsfield, Divorce Hen. VIII. (1878), 149. Pope Julius was an anatheme and accursed for dispensing with the same.
2. A sentence of damnation, a curse, = ANATHEMA 2.
c. 1555. Harpsfield, Divorce Hen. VIII. (1878), 61. Terrible anathems and excommunications.
1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas, Captaines, 386. The voice divine … [had] choicely armed them ’Gainst Jericho, with his owne anathem.
c. 1630. Drumm. of Hawth., Poems (1711), 10/2. My voice, now cleave the earth with anathems … Till … life a slumber is of fearfull dreams.
1648. Gage, West Ind., iii. (1655), 8. Excommunicated with an Anathem.
