#curse

• Excommunicated — A person who has been excluded from the church community, excommunicated, or placed under an official ecclesiastical curse. In old popular speech, the word acquired strong pejorative connotations, being used as an insulting epithet for a wicked, stubborn, or faithless individual.
• Anathema — The act of anathematizing or its result; a solemn religious punishment (anathema / excommunication) through which a person is excluded from the church community, being deemed cursed. In current colloquial language, the term has lost its strictly sacred character, denoting a scolding, a harsh reprimand, a popular curse, or a wicked, cursed person full of vices.
• Anathema — A regional and archaic variant of the noun 'afurisanie'; a formal ecclesiastical punishment consisting of the elimination of a person from the religious community through excommunication or ritual curse. In colloquial speech, the term describes an extremely harsh reprimand, a curse thrown in anger, or, pejoratively, a wicked, stubborn, and hard-to-manage individual.
• Curse — To exclude a person from the Christian community through official anathema or excommunication, declaring them cursed; to curse, scold, harshly reprimand, or verbally abuse someone in everyday language. In the reflexive or passive form, it describes the act of becoming stubborn, malicious, or persistent in a mistake.
• Cursed — Having been struck by anathema or excommunicated from the church; cursed, wicked, or villainous. In current and informal speech, it describes a hard-to-handle object, a difficult, bad, or annoying situation, or a person (often a child) who is mischievous, shrewd, stubborn, or wicked, yet sometimes viewed with a hint of hidden fondness.
• Fast runner — An archaic or regional term designating a person or animal that runs a lot, swiftly, and with ease; a good racing or trotting horse; a fast foot courier or messenger. As an adjective, it describes a being characterized by speed in motion, locomotor agility, or a native tendency to run often.
• Racecourse — A specially designed place, track, smooth ground, or bordered lane where running, trotting and galloping horse races, or athletic training take place; an archaic hippodrome; a running ground for animals. In old rural land registries, the term also described a meadow or open pasture where youth used to race their horses.
• Anathema — An archaic or regional spelling variant found in old church texts for the standard term 'anaftemă' (excommunication, religious curse); it represents the solemn sentence of excluding a person from the Christian religious community due to heresy. In a structural dogmatic sense, it defines the state of total separation from the church and the symbolic rejection of doctrinal errors to protect the integrity of the Christian faith.
• Anathema — The supreme religious punishment used in Christianity (especially in Eastern Orthodoxy), consisting of the solemn and definitive exclusion of a person from the church community due to grave dogmatic deviations or heresy; a formal ecclesiastical curse. In an historical and canonical structural sense, it implies the total severance of sacramental communion, pronounced by an ecumenical council or high hierarchical authority against those who refuse to retract their doctrinal errors.
• Anathema — An archaic, popular, or regional spelling variant found in old ecclesiastical writings across the Balkan space for the standard term 'anaftemă' (religious curse, excommunication); it represents the solemn formula of repudiation and exclusion of a heretic from the Christian community. In the structure of historical texts, this variant reflects a direct popular phonetic assimilation of the original liturgical Greek term.
• Anathema — The most severe religious sanction or ecclesiastical condemnation, specific to Christian tradition, consisting of the solemn and definitive exclusion of a person (heretic or apostate) from the community of believers, followed by cursing and leaving them to divine judgment. In a figurative sense, the term describes a total reprobation, a vehement public condemnation, a universal execration, or a curse cast upon an act, ideology, or behavior considered deeply reprehensible.
• Anathematized — Having undergone anathema; struck by the supreme ecclesiastical curse, solemnly excommunicated, and definitively excluded from the religious community of believers. In an extended or figurative sense, the term describes an individual, a doctrine, a book, or a concept vehemently rejected, publicly condemned, repudiated by society, and doomed to isolation or oblivion.
• Anathematized — Struck by anathema, solemnly excommunicated, or cursed according to old ecclesiastical rituals and canons; an archaic variant for 'anatemizat'. The term describes the legal and religious status of an individual definitively excluded from the community of believers and condemned to spiritual perdition, and in an extended sense, it applies to a doctrine, book, or idea publicly condemned and radically repudiated by society.
• Anathematized — Struck by anathema, solemnly excommunicated, or cursed according to old ecclesiastical rituals and canons; an archaic variant for 'anatemizat'. The term describes the legal and religious status of an individual definitively excluded from the community of believers and condemned to spiritual perdition, and in an extended sense, it applies to a doctrine, book, or idea publicly condemned and radically repudiated by society.
• Anathematized — Struck by anathema, solemnly excommunicated, or cursed according to old ecclesiastical rituals and canons; an archaic variant for 'anatemizat'. The term describes the legal and religious status of an individual definitively excluded from the community of believers and condemned to spiritual perdition, and in an extended sense, it applies to a doctrine, book, or idea publicly condemned and radically repudiated by society.
• Anathematized — Struck by anathema, solemnly excommunicated, or cursed according to old ecclesiastical rituals and canons; an archaic variant for 'anatemizat'. The term describes the legal and religious status of an individual definitively excluded from the community of believers and condemned to spiritual oblivion, and in an extended sense, it applies to a doctrine, book, or idea publicly condemned and radically repudiated by society.
• Anathematized — Struck by anathema; a person who has been solemnly excommunicated and definitively excluded from the community of believers following a major synodal or ecclesiastical decision. In an extended or figurative sense, it describes an individual, a book, a doctrine, or an idea publicly condemned with maximum severity, radically repudiated by society, and doomed to isolation or general blame.
• Anathema — An etymological or old variant spelling for 'anatemă' (anathema), designating the most severe ecclesiastical sanction in the Christian tradition, consisting of the solemn exclusion of an individual from the community of believers and leaving them to divine judgment. In a figurative sense, it retains the meaning of a vehement public condemnation, absolute rejection, or a curse cast upon an act considered unacceptable.
• Anathema — A popular, regional, or obsolete variant spelling for 'anatemă' (anathema), sometimes used in old religious texts or regional colloquial language. It designates the supreme ecclesiastical punishment by which a heretic is solemnly excluded from the Church, and at a figurative level, it expresses a powerful curse or a radical public condemnation of a reprehensible deed.
• Anathematized — Struck by anathema, solemnly excommunicated, or cursed according to old ecclesiastical rituals and canons; an archaic variant for 'anatemizat'. The term describes the legal and religious status of an individual definitively excluded from the community of believers and condemned to spiritual oblivion, and in an extended sense, it applies to a doctrine, book, or idea publicly condemned and radically repudiated by society.