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Anathematizes vs Anathematises - What's the difference?

anathematizes | anathematises |

As verbs the difference between anathematizes and anathematises

is that anathematizes is (anathematize) while anathematises is (anathematise).

anathematizes

English

Verb

(head)
  • (anathematize)
  • ----

    anathematize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * anathematise

    Verb

  • To cause to be, or to declare as, an anathema or evil.
  • *1850 , , White Jacket , ch. 3:
  • *:These are the fellows that some officers never pretend to damn, however much they may anathematize others.
  • *1907 , , Rowdy of the Cross L , ch. 9:
  • *:Rowdy had been heard, more than once lately, to anathematize viciously the prairie-dogs for standing on their tails and chipchip-chipping at them as they went by.
  • *2009 , Candace de Russy, " Madness, Thy Name Is 'Stimulus'," American Thinker , 13 Feb. (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."
  • Synonyms

    * condemn, damn, deprecate, excoriate, vilify

    Derived terms

    * anathematization * anathematizer

    anathematises

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (anathematise)

  • anathematise

    English

    Verb

    (anathematis)