Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Anathematism \A*nath"e*ma*tism\, n. [Gr. ? a cursing; cf. F.
   anath['e]matisme.]
   Anathematization. [Obs.]

         We find a law of Justinian forbidding anathematisms to
         be pronounced against the Jewish Hellenists. --J.
                                                  Taylor.