Anathema

Zell's Condensed Dictionary · 1879 · p. 3

(a-nath'e-mah.) [Gr., a person exposed to public reprobation.] (Eccl.) The ostracism of a person from social intercourse, and from communion with the Church. A. differs from simple excommunication, inasmuch as the former is attended with curses and exec rations. [s. 30]