abomination

 15 October 16:55   

    Late Latin (a , a being cursed, an ) < Greek (1.a ; 2. to be formally set apart; 3. banished, exiled, excommunicated 4. denounced, after allurement into )< Greek (to , set apart)< Greek ()< PIE , afterwards which the Greek appellation took on some of the meanings of the Hebrew. However, it was not a , as the Greek chat was already in use before.

    In beforehand Greek acceptance and in Hebrew the appellation adumbrated offerings create to the divinity which were abeyant from the roof or walls of temples for the purpose of getting apparent to view. Appropriately herem signifies a affair offered to God. The chat (herem or its Greek equivalent) is sometimes acclimated in this faculty in the Old and New Testaments: because it was associated with ambience afar (for God), it gradually came to accept the acceptation as set afar (from God).

    #A ban or anathema arresting with religious acerbity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Accusation of annihilation as accursed.

    #An ; a ; a .

    #Any being or affair anathematized, or accursed by ecclesiastical authority.

    ;ban or curse

    ;imprecation

    ;person or thing

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