1593 R. Cosin Apol. for Sundrie Proc. (rev. ed.) iii. vii. 69 A most iust curse of Anathematizing, laied by the Bishops then, against all wilfull infringers of that Charter.

1680 R. Baxter Church-hist. Govt. Bishops vii. 183 Vigilius..dispraiseth the passages of Theodoret and Ibas, but he refuseth to join in the anathematizing of them.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Anathematizing amounts to the same with excommunicating.

1838 Foreign Q. Rev. 21 261 Is it becoming in us..to institute a crusade of hard names and anathematizings against the honest, inquiring, truth-loving Germans.

1906 Monthly Rev. Nov. 11 Hence Mr. Keir Hardie's irritable anathematising of ‘craven weaklings’.

2010 G. Gassmann in J. F. Puglisis How can Petrine Ministry be Service to Unity? 96 They do not see what an outrage the anathematizing of the doctrine of justification is.

1610 J. Selden Duello iii. 11 Binding the offenders vnder anathematizing constraint.

1653 R. Baxter Christian Concord 4 Delivering up to Satan, and the great Anathematizing Excommunication.

1797 S. J. Pratt Family Secrets V. xxix. 348 I have fulminated at him like an anathematising pope.

1884 Spectator 15 Mar. 354/1 The civilians pushed aside the anathematising prior and his attendants, and dragged forth the criminal.

1900 G. Swift Somerley 89 The tempting sight of a dozen of champagne..obliterated even the vision of my yawning, waiting, anathematising landlady.

2017 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 4 Aug. 36 Dialogue..often leads to transformation of attitudes; to conversion of minds and hearts, away from hostile, mutually anathematising narratives.