ἀνάθεμα

a thing set up or laid by in order to be kept, specifically, an offering resulting from a vow, which after being consecrated to a god was hung upon the walls or columns of the temple, or put in some other conspicuous place, a thing devoted to God without hope of being redeemed, and if an animal, to be slain therefore a person or thing doomed to destruction, a curse, a man accursed, devoted to the direst of woes