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#126445 - 03/28/04 05:16 PM anathema
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Anathema
(Gr. anathema -- literally, placed on high, suspended, set aside).
A term formerly indicating offerings made to the divinity which were suspended from the roof or walls of temples for the purpose of being exposed to view. Thus anathema according to its etymology signifies a thing offered to God. The word anathema is sometimes used in this sense in the Old and New Testaments: In Judith, xvi, 23, it is said that Judith, having taken all the arms of Holofernes which the people had given him and the curtain of his bed which she herself had brought, offered them to the Lord as an anathema of oblivion. In II Mach., ix, 16, Antiochus promises to adorn with precious gifts (anathemata) the temple he has pillaged; and in Luke, xxi, 5, mention is made of the temple built of precious stones and adorned with rich gifts (anathemata). As odious objects were also exposed to view, e.g. the head of a criminal or of an enemy, or his arms or spoils, the word anathema came to signify a thing hated, or execrable, devoted to public abhorrence or destruction. "
From Catholic Encyclopedia
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#126446 - 03/28/04 05:21 PM
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#126447 - 03/28/04 05:25 PM
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You have a dog named Anathema?
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#126448 - 03/28/04 05:37 PM
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#126449 - 03/29/04 06:44 AM
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#126450 - 03/29/04 07:41 AM
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#126451 - 03/29/04 10:21 AM
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#126452 - 03/29/04 04:06 PM
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It'd certainly take dogged determination to teach it!
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#126453 - 05/05/04 05:05 PM
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#126454 - 05/05/04 05:48 PM
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Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog ... or any other animal that one chooses to take for a walk? I have a liking for lobsters. They are peaceful, serious creatures. They know the secrets of the sea, they don't bark, and they don't gnaw upon one's monadic privacy like dogs do. And Goethe had an aversion to dogs, and he wasn't mad.
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