To cause to be, or to declare as, an anathema or evil.
These are the fellows that some officers never pretend to damn, however much they may anathematize others.
From anathema + -ize; the -t- is part of the root of the underlying Greek word ἀνάθεμα (anáthema) (albeit not visible in the nominative singular form), which also explains the plural anathemata and ot...
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