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<h1>Anastomosis</h1> <Xpage=<hw>An`a*stal"tic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a. & n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ 54 fitted for checking, fr. <?/ + <?/ to send.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark></def>>

<hw>A*nas`to*mo"sis</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Anastomoses</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ opening, fr. <?/ to furnish with a mouth or opening, to open; <?/ + <?/ mouth: cf. F. <ets>anastomose</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Anat. & Bot.)</fld> <def>The inosculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries or veins.</def>

<h1>Anastomotic</h1> <Xpage=<hw>An`a*stal"tic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a. & n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ 54 fitted for checking, fr. <?/ + <?/ to send.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark></def>>

<hw>A*nas`to*mot"ic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to anastomosis.</def>

<h1>Anastrophe</h1> <Xpage=<hw>An`a*stal"tic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a. & n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ 54 fitted for checking, fr. <?/ + <?/ to send.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark></def>>

<hw>A*nas"tro*phe</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/, fr. <?/ to turn up or back; <?/ + <?/ to turn.]</ety> <fld>(Rhet. & Gram.)</fld> <def>An inversion of the natural order of words; <as>as, <ex>echoed the hills</ex>, for, the <ex>hills echoed</ex></as>.</def>

<h1>Anathema</h1> <Xpage=<hw>An`a*stal"tic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a. & n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ 54 fitted for checking, fr. <?/ + <?/ to send.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark></def>>

<hw>A*nath"e*ma</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Anathemas</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L. <ets>anath<?/ma</ets>, fr. Gr. <?/ anything devoted, esp. to evil, a curse; also L. <ets>anath<?/ma</ets>, fr. Gr. <?/ a votive offering; all fr. <?/ to set up as a votive gift, dedicate; <?/ up + <?/ to set. See <er>Thesis</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed.</def>

<blockquote> denounce <b>anathemas</b> against unbelievers. <i>Priestley.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.</def>

<blockquote>Finally she fled to London followed by the <b>anathemas</b> of both [families]. <i>Thackeray.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.</def>

<blockquote>The Jewish nation were an <b>anathema</b> destined to destruction. St. Paul . . . says he could wish, to save them from it, to become an <b>anathema</b>, and be destroyed himself. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Anathema Maranatha</col> <tt>(#)</tt> <ety>(see <i>1 Cor. xvi. 22</i>)</ety>, <cd>an expression commonly considered as a highly intensified form of <i>anathema<i>. <i>Maran atha<i> is now considered as a separate sentence, meaning, "Our Lord cometh."</cd></cs>

<mhw><h1>Anathematic, Anathematical</h1> <Xpage=<hw>An`a*stal"tic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a. & n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ 54 fitted for checking, fr. <?/ + <?/ to send.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark></def>>

<hw>A*nath`e*mat"ic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>A*nath`e*mat"ic*al</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, </mhw> <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an anathema.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>A*nath`e*mat"ic*al*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Anathematism</h1> <Xpage=<hw>An`a*stal"tic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a. & n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ 54 fitted for checking, fr. <?/ + <?/ to send.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark></def>>

<hw>A*nath"e*ma*tism</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ a cursing; cf. F. <ets>anath\'82matisme</ets>.]</ety> <def>Anathematization.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>We find a law of Justinian forbidding <b>anathematisms</b> to be pronounced against the Jewish Hellenists. <i>J. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Anathematization</h1> <Xpage=<hw>An`a*stal"tic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a. & n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ 54 fitted for checking, fr. <?/ + <?/ to send.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark></def>>

<hw>A*nath`e*ma*ti*za"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>anathematisatio</ets>.]</ety> <def>The act of anathematizing, or denouncing as accursed; imprecation.</def>

<i>Barrow.</i>

<h1>Anathematize</h1> <Xpage=<hw>An`a*stal"tic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a. & n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ 54 fitted for checking, fr. <?/ + <?/ to send.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark></def>>

<hw>A*nath"e*ma*tize</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Anathematized</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Anathematizing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>anathematizare</ets>, Gr. <?/ to devote, make accursed: cf. F. <ets>anath\'82matiser</ets>.]</ety> <def>To pronounce an anathema against; to curse. Hence: To condemn publicly as something accursed.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<h1>Anathematizer</h1> <Xpage=<hw>An`a*stal"tic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a. & n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ 54 fitted for checking, fr. <?/ + <?/ to send.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark></def>>

<hw>A*nath"e*ma*ti`zer</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who pronounces an anathema.</def>

<i>Hammond.</i>

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