a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 149 Pope Julius was an anatheme and accursed for dispensing with the same.

1612 R. Sheldon 1st Serm. after Conversion 48 The beginner of any such quarrell by all Britaines should deserue to bee reputed as a most detestable Anatheme.

1826 J. Browning tr. L. Pignotti Hist. Tuscany (new ed.) III. x. 354 The children..went in humility and devotion to all the houses, asking for the anatheme [It. l'anatèma], or all that was profane, such as obscene pictures, and immodest books, which were freely granted them.

a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 61 Terrible anathems and excommunications.

1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 120 The voice Devine..[had] choicely armed them 'Gainst Ierico, with his owne Anatheme.

?1614 W. Drummond Sonnet: Mine Eies in Poems My Voice now cleaue the Earth with Anatheames..Tell..Life a Slomber is of fearefull Dreames.

1786 European Mag. & London Rev. Dec. 450/1 Round your bold master flock, ye mitred hive, With anathems on Whigs his soul revive.

1854 I. M. Wise Hist. Israelitish Nation I. v. xii. 546 Jeremiah pronounced the anathem against all those who continued to oppose the measures of government.

1908 O. Jacobs Memoirs 51 We heard..a shrill voice saying in prolonged accents, ‘Steal Hoss! God dam!’.. The anatheme was the nucleus of England's native eloquence; and if so, why not of Indian oratory!

1992 G. A. Kon tr. H. Vogels Celibacy ii. 49 During the council's last session, which took place under pressure of time, only a few anathems were put into effect.

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 71 Colours taken forty four, hung up as An [a] themes..in the Church of Nostre Dame.

1665 T. Stanley tr. Ælian Various Hist. iii. xxvi. 87 Pindarus advised the Ephesians to fasten Ropes from the Gates and Walls to the Pillars of the Temple of Diana, by that means making the whole City an Anatheme to her, thereby to preserve it secure.

1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §286 The pillars..upon which were destined to be placed cauldrons, tripods and other anathemes [Ger. Anathemen].

1987 A.-M. Leander Touati Great Trajanic Frieze ii. 36/2 It should be noted that the copies from which we know the older anathem are generally dated to the Hadrianic period.

2017 S. Agelidis in L. C. Nevett Theoret. Approaches to Anc. Greece xi. 231 A standard element of the anatheme was an inscription documenting the name of the choregos and his tribe.