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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
anathematize .
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Examples
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David Brooks damns Rush Limbaugh who knocks Bill Kristol who anathematizes whoever is to be anathematized this week.
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One-half of Europe anathematizes the other on the subject of the
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Our society rightly anathematizes white racism against blacks.
From the WSJ Opinion Archives James Taranto 2007
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It is one Sylburgius who says, in an old book which nobody reads, that he anathematizes the angels Arot, Marot,
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This, our world, has for a long time resembled the compact edifices in which he who believes in the eternal Father anathematizes him who believes in the Holy Ghost; circumstances which are not very rare even in these days.
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Most significant of all, social classes that sustain and nourish those centers and the vices that originate them still scorns and anathematizes work -- capitalism.
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And in a vivacious paragraph which follows this initial sentence he humorously anathematizes the literary life.
The Bibliotaph and Other People Leon H. Vincent
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Quaint old Burton in his "Anatomy of Melancholy," recognizes the virtues of the plant while he anathematizes its abuse.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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Atheist and Sadducee, if not very wizard himself, were the terms in which his name was generally mentioned, and as such, the royal author of the _Demonology_ anathematizes him with great unction and very edifying horror.
Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster Thomas Potts
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Senator Trumbull is the author of the two important measures which the President vetoed; Senator Fessenden is the chairman and organ of the Committee of Fifteen which the President anathematizes.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various
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