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語源

From anathema +‎ -ize; the -t- is part of the root of the underlying Greek word ἀνάθεμα (anáthema) (albeit not visible in the nominative singular form), which also explains the plural anathemata and other derivations from anathema such as anathematic.

発音

• IPA: /əˈnæ.θə.mə.taɪz/

動詞

anathematize (third-person singular simple present anathematizes, present participle anathematizing, simple past and past participle anathematized)

1. (transitive) To cause to be, or to declare as, an anathema or evil.

   Synonyms: anathemize, condemn, damn, deprecate, excoriate, vilify

   • 1850, Herman Melville, chapter III, in White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers; London: Richard Bentley, published 1855, →OCLC:

     These are the fellows that some officers never pretend to damn, however much they may anathematize others.

   • 1907, B. M. Bower, chapter 9, in Rowdy of the Cross L:

     Rowdy had been heard, more than once lately, to anathematize viciously the prairie-dogs for standing on their tails and chip-chip-chipping at them as they went by.

   • 1914 October 11, “In camp: The day’s work of a W.A. soldier”, in The Sunday Times, number 875, Perth, W.A.: E. W. Finn for “The Sunday Times” Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 8:

     "Crook in the guts," he says tersely. The picturesque reports of previously-treated and disgusted patients have left him doubtful, and he casts an anathematising eye upon the "Black Jack" bottle. "Tabloids and duty!" says the doctor, and the sufferer sighs with relief. There's no taste in tabloids, anyhow, and he reckons the doctor "ain't a bad poor something, after all!"

   • 2009 February 13, Candace de Russy, “Madness, Thy Name Is 'Stimulus'”, in American Thinker, retrieved 21 Feb. 2009:

     Harvard economist Robert Barro anathematized it as "probably the worst bill that has been put forth since the 1930s" and, in a word, "garbage."

派生語

• anathematization
• anathematizer