Strengthening our hearts with prayer and whispering anathemas against evil spirits, we entered the narrow pass in the name of God, and pressed forward, prepared to suffer whatever might befall.
They said they had a hunter's gun in their cabin to keep off bears, and knew several powerful sentences and anathemas against demons.
There the reverend Superior displayed the crucifix in order to banish the evil powers which abound in these terrible mountains; and he also said prayers and pronounced anathemas against all demons infesting the valley below.
If the anathemas took no other effect, they seemed to have produced a very remarkable one on the unfortunate elm tree, through the naked branches of which the Doctor discharged this fiendish shot.
I, however, being the only member of that devoted board, who happened to be extensively known in the States, their anathemas were all poured out on me, and all their energies brought forward to insure my destruction.
Then are they right, those men who are bound to yonder stakes, when they brand you with the name of tyrant; then is the Bishop of Rome right when he upbraids you as an apostate and degenerate son, and hurls his anathemas against you!
Catharine Parr is hailed by the Protestants of England as the new patroness of the persecuted doctrine, and already the Romish priests hurl their anathemas against you, and execrate you and your dangerous presence here.
Though so many anathemas had been flung at Rome by Byzantium and at Byzantium by Rome, they had hitherto been directed only against the persons and their followers, not against the respective churches as such.
As the whole West now recognised Martin as the true pope the schism may be said to end with his accession, though Benedict continued to thunder anathemas from his strong Spanish castle till his death in A.
The return of the papal court to Rome was the occasion of a forty years’ schism, during which two popes, for a time even three, are seen hurling anathemas at one another.
Observant cloisters placed by the duke under the pope’s protection should so continue, confirmed all their privileges, and annulled all mandates and anathemas issued against Proles and his followers.
On the basis of a strictly Augustinian theology he opposed the papal systems of anathemas and indulgences, and preached powerfully salvation by Jesus Christ only.
After the tale of some specially impressive interference of Providence, he launches ferocious anathemas at the most famous sceptics, Xenophanes, Diagoras, and Epicurus.
It is noteworthy that all these anathemas are simply for ecclesiastical offences, not for any immorality, however gross.
But anathemas appear to be a part of his daily recreation.
Curses andanathemas were no check to the fertile soil.
In spite of this opposition, however, the Quakers continued their control of the colony, serenely tolerating the anathemas of the learned Churchmen and the fierce curses and brandished weapons of the Presbyterians and Scotch-Irish.
In the latter case one of the largest of the locusts was seized and tried and then put to death by being thrown into the water with anathemas on the whole species.
Navarre, refers, in his work on excommunication, to a case in which anathemas were fulminated against certain large sea-creatures called terones, which infested the waters of Sorrento and destroyed the nets of the fishermen.
Every untoward event furnished an occasion for their intervention, which could be averted or repelled only by the benedictions, exorcisms or anathemas of the Church.
For the Council to publish anathemas implies the conviction that it is free, legitimate, and oecumenical, and that the order of business is acceptable.
All modern culture will separate itself in spirit from the Church, which has nothing but anathemas for the development of the human mind.
Maret had announced his intention of speaking, with the view of combating the four anathemas of Dechamps, which were so manifestly directed against his book.
The Bishop of Rottenburg had proposed that the decree should contain no anathemas on persons but only on doctrines; the Germans and about six French Bishops agreed with him, but the rest would hear nothing of it.
In the Asshur of the Bible they find Russia, and apply to it the anathemas launched by the prophets against Nineveh and Babylon.
The Oriental patriarchs have shared the heresy of the Russian prelates by agreeing to their anathemas against the ancient rites, and orthodoxy has carried with it in its fall the episcopate, apostolical succession and the lawful priesthood.
Great, then, was the popular bewilderment when the council turned from deposing the author of the liturgic revision to hurl its anathemas against those who opposed that revision.
The pulpits from whence they discharged the thunder of their anathemas against the powerful and the innocent alike, are deserted and silent.
Finding their arguments of no avail, they formally cursed him with all the anathemas of the Quran, both for this life and the next.
The next trial was to be the most heart-searching and trying of all, and 'Alam Gul felt he would ten times rather have had the anathemas of the Mullahs or the beatings of his enemies.
The very volubility and eloquence of his anathemas would have dismayed any ordinary thief had he been within earshot, but whether he ever got back his shoes or not I cannot say.
The Dragon is the same Athanasius whose creed sends forth its anathemas in churches dedicated to the Arian canonised for having slain him!
Any denial of that conception would certainly have called forth anathemas at least as severe as those which were hurled against the legalists in Galatia.
While he thundered anathemas against Luther, he did not cease in private to ridicule the whole Christian doctrine as a mere fable.
They pronounced anathemas against John of Damascus and other champions of images.
For nearly six months anathemas had been dealt out in the patriarchal church every Sabbath until many of the people grew weary of them.
The anathemas of the Maronite clergy, once so terrific, had lost their power.
There existed no rival sect in which he could take refuge, and where, in the professed agreement of many minds, he could forget the anathemas of the Church.
The Councils, animated by an almost frantic hatred, urged on by their anathemas the rival sects.
The oppressions and anathemas received by the old Bahais from the followers of Abdul Baha Abbas give the answer.
It was enough to make an angel weep and justified the anathemas hurled at the commander and the cowardly troops that were left to defend them.
Many expressions of evil and forebodings of disaster were indulged in and anathemas were hurled at the commander without stint for holding us back for this, the hour of our doom.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anathemas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
