ban
see also: BAN, Ban
Pronunciation
BAN
Noun
Ban
Proper noun
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see also: BAN, Ban
Pronunciation
- IPA: /bæn/
ban (bans, present participle banning; past banned, past participle banned)
- (transitive, obsolete) To summon; to call out.
- (transitive) To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
- (transitive) To curse; to execrate.
- (transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
- Bare feet are banned in this establishment.
- (transitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
- French: interdire, proscrire
- German: verbieten
- Italian: espellere, vietare, censurare, bandire
- Portuguese: proibir, banir
- Russian: запреща́ть
- Spanish: prohibir
ban (plural bans)
- Prohibition.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- That sacred fruit, sacred to abstinence,
Much more to taste it under ban to touch
- A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms.
- Bans is common and ordinary amongst the Feudists, and signifies a proclamation, or any public notice.
- The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable to be summoned; originally, the same as arrière-ban: in the 16th c., French usage created a distinction between ban and arrière-ban, for which see the latter word.
- He has sent abroad to assemble his ban and arriere ban.
- The Ban and the Arrierban are met armed in the field to choose a king.
- France was at such a Pinch..that they call'd their Ban and Arriere Ban, the assembling whereof had been long discussed, and in a manner antiquated.
- The ban was sometimes convoked, that is, the possessors of the fiefs were called upon for military services.
- The act of calling together the vassals in armed array, was entitled ‘convoking the ban.
- (obsolete) A curse or anathema.
- c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene ii]:
- With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected
- A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
- black ban
- total fire ban
- French: interdiction, prohibition
- German: Verbot
- Italian: proibizione, divieto
- Portuguese: proibição
- Russian: запре́т
- Spanish: prohibición
ban (plural bani)
- A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.
- A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.
- German: Ban
ban (plural bans)
- A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
ban (plural bans)
- A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.
- German: Ban, Banus
- Italian: bano
BAN
Noun
- Initialism of British Approved Name
Ban
Proper noun
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