1. (n.) Anything forbidden by or society or religious authority\.

2. (n.) A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed.

3. (n.) An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.

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