different between deprecate vs anathematize

English

Etymology

From Latin d?prec?tus, past participle of d?prec?r? (“to pray against (a present or impending evil), pray for, intercede for (that which is in danger), rarely imprecate”), from d? (“off”) + prec?r? (“to pray”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?p??ke?t/, /?d?p??ke?t/
• Hyphenation: dep?re?cate

Verb

deprecate (third-person singular simple present deprecates, present participle deprecating, simple past and past participle deprecated)

1. (transitive) To belittle or express disapproval of.

2. (transitive, chiefly computing) To declare something obsolescent; to recommend against a function, technique, command, etc. that still works but has been replaced.
   • 2003, Dave Evans et al., Perl, CGI, and JavaScript Complete, Sybex, ?ISBN

     A deprecated function works in the currently released version of Perl 5 but may not be supported in future releases of Perl 5.

3. (archaic, transitive) To pray against.
   • 1701, Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra, London: W. Rogers, S. Smith, and B. Walford, page 126:

     And in deprecating of Evil, we make an humble Acknowledgement of Guilt; and of God’s Ju?tice in cha?tizing, as well as Clemency, in ?paring the Guilty.

   • 1712, George Smalridge, “A Sermon, Preach’d at the Royal Chapel at St. James’s on Wedne?day, January the 16th, 1711/12”, London: Jonah Bowyer, page 18:

     […] , though the Temporal Judgments which We Deprecate, are not remov’d.

4. (archaic, transitive) To regret deeply.

Usage notes

• Do not confuse with depreciate (“decline in value / disparage”), despite the fact that AHD4 states that deprecate has almost completely supplanted depreciate, which is sometimes condemned as a confusion of two different words.

Derived terms

• self-deprecating

Related terms

• deprecation

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Further reading

• deprecate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• deprecate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• deprecate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Italian

Verb

deprecate

1. second-person plural present and imperative of deprecare

Latin

Verb

d?prec?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of d?prec?

English

Alternative forms

• anathematise

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??næ.??.m?.ta?z/

Verb

anathematize (third-person singular simple present anathematizes, present participle anathematizing, simple past and past participle anathematized)

1. (transitive) To cause to be, or to declare as, an anathema or evil.
   • 2009, Candace de Russy, "Madness, Thy Name Is 'Stimulus'," American Thinker, 13 Feb. (retrieved 21 Feb. 2009):

     Harvard economist Robert Barro anathematized it as "probably the worst bill that has been put forth since the 1930s" and, in a word, "garbage."

Synonyms

• condemn, damn, deprecate, excoriate, vilify

Derived terms

• anathematization
• anathematizer

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