1. Noun
A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed.
2. Noun
An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
3. Noun
Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.
4. Noun
a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
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