| 1. a thing set up or laid by in order to be kept
1) 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 2. 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 1) a curse 2) a man accursed, devoted to the direst of woes |