[a. Fr. anatheme (Cotgr.), ad. L. anathēma a dedicated offering, a. Gr. ἀνάθημα a thing set up: see ANATHEMA 3.] An offering dedicated to God.
1654. L’Estrange, Charles I., 71. Colours taken forty four, hung up as An[a]themes at Paris, in the Church of Nostre Dame.
1850. Leitch, Müller’s Anc. Art, § 286. The pillars … upon which were destined to be placed cauldrons, tripods and other anathemes.
