an a them at ism (anathematizm)

[ We find a law of Just in i an forbidding an a them at isms to be pronounced against the Jewish Hellenists. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1839), XIII. 540. an a thematization (a-nath"ē-mat-i-za's hon), n. [ IMG:content-0698.png:[blocks in formation] The priests continued to exorcise the po e ed, to prose cute witches, and to anathematise as infidels all who Lecky , Rationalism, I. 115. questioned the crime. At length his words found vent, and for three days he [William the Testy] kept up a constant discharge, anath ematizing the Yankees, man, woman, and child. Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 222. II. in trans. To pronounce anathemas; curse. Well may mankind shriek, inarticulately anathematiz ing as they can. Carlyle, French Rev., III. i. 6. Also spelled anathematise . 199