<OL TYPE="1"><LI>a thing set up or laid by in order to be kept<OL TYPE="a"><LI>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</OL><LI>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<OL TYPE="a"><LI>a curse<LI>a man accursed, devoted to the direst of woes</OL></OL>