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verb
(with anathema or interdict) To bind up, as in a knot, with the punishment of anathema or interdict; to anathemize or interdict.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: lifestyle, religion
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
First attested in 1630; adapted from Medieval Latin vinculis anathematis innodare (“to bind (someone) with/in the bounds of anathema”), borrowed from Latin innōdātus, perfect passive participle of innōdō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + nodus (“knot”).
