anathematize

verb

Etymology: 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 other derivations from anathema such as anathematic.

1. 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.”

   “Rowdy had been heard, more than once lately, to anathematize viciously the prairie-dogs for standing on their tails and chip-chip-chipping at them as they went by.”