- (n.) Any person or thing anathematized or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.
- (n.) An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
- (n.) A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed.
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