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Meanings of anathemise in English

Portuguese
amaldiçoar
Spanish
maldecir

Wish harm upon; invoke evil upon.

    amaldiçoar
    Portuguese
    abominar
    Catalan
    anatematitzar

    Curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment.

          abominar
          Synonyms
          Examples for "execrate"
          Examples for "execrate"
          1
          One learns in these aged lands to hate and execrate the past.
          Venetian Life
          2
          Not a few men secretly admire though publicly execrate the Lawton type.
          The Poisoned Pen
          3
          Should he execrate her, or her venerable grandmother, or some unknown person?
          The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales
          4
          Then he would glare at Ruth impatiently and execrate the squeamishness of women.
          Told in the East
          5
          These execrate him as the full-grown Golden Calf of heathenish worship.
          Celt and Saxon — Volume 2
          1
          We anathematize the intruder openly; this is incautious, for our anathemas provoke reprisals.
          A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees
          2
          One effect of the war has been to anathematize the name of Germany.
          Paris War Days: Diary of an American
          3
          They anathematize a civilization which tolerates ear-rings, or feathered hats, or artificial flowers.
          Americans and Others
          4
          Clergymen, who anathematize us for wandering into Unitarianism-you ,youhave driven us thither.
          Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography
          5
          Even Hemstead joined in the laugh, though inwardly inclined to anathematize his big feet.
          From Jest to Earnest
          1
          Those who would anathematise all works of the flesh she held to be abominable and impious.
          The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
          2
          I anathematise the formal sentiment, but there is a truth in it, when spoken of material acts.
          Apologia pro Vita Sua
          3
          But try as I might to anathematise them in the name of God, my heart felt like breaking and no words would come.
          Glimpses of Bengal / Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindrana...
          4
          He slept well, too, with never a thought of the Saturday express which he had lain awake on other nights to lament and anathematise.
          Truxton King: A Story of Graustark
          5
          He could picture her chagrin, and again anathematised Grell in his thoughts.
          The Grell Mystery
          1
          He thought of the girl in another tent in that accursed village.
          The Son of Tarzan
          2
          Yes, Great One-or rather some accursed one in his pay did it.
          Lord of Light
          3
          The she-dog with white teeth; the seven times accursed slave of Bulangi.
          Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River
          4
          I have seen the accursed Holkerstein; I have penetrated within his fortress.
          Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 2
          5
          The rest remains in ruins, and men say the land is accursed.
          Quest for honour
          Translations for anathemise
          Spanish
          maldecir