a-nath-e-ma noun :: A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed. noun :: An imprecation; a curse; a malediction. noun :: Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority. "...the sound of a witch's anathemas in some unknown tongue" --Nathaniel Hawthorne. ...