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noun

Ban n. A kind of fine muslin, made in the East Indies from the fiber of the banana leaf stalks.

Ban n.

1.

A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.

2.

(Feudal & Mil.) A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army.

3.

pl. Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense).

4.

An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription. "Under ban to touch."

5.

A curse or anathema. "Hecate's ban."

6.

A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.

Ban of the empire (German Hist.), an imperial interdict by which political rights and privileges, as those of a prince, city, or district, were taken away.

Ban n. An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia.

verb

Ban v. t. (past & past part. banned; pres. part. banning)

1.

To curse; to invoke evil upon.

2.

To forbid; to interdict.

Ban v. i. To curse; to swear. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Ban'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ban" Quotes from Famous Books

... combined the best features, as to skill, of the two most elaborate and most successful of all secret societies recorded in history; one of which went before the Irish Society by centuries, and one followed it after an interval of five-and-twenty years. These two are the Fehm-Gericht, or court of ban and extermination, which, having taken its rise in Westphalia, is usually called the secret Tribunal of Westphalia, and which reached its full development in the fourteenth century. The other is the Hellenistic ...

— Autobiographic Sketches • Thomas de Quincey

... ban of fear was lifted, and the frightened woman made haste to avail herself of the official ...

— The Midnight Passenger • Richard Henry Savage

... in the Thirty-Years War (under our Prince Rupert's Father, whom the Germans call the 'Winter-King'), got abrogated, put to the ban, so far as an indignant Kaiser could; and the vote and KUR of Pfalz was given to his Cousin of BAIERN (Bavaria),—so far as an indignant Kaiser could. However, at the Peace of Westphalia (1648) it was found incompetent to any Kaiser to abrogate PFULZ or the like of Pfalz, a Kurfurst of the ...

— History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol, II. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great--Of Brandenburg And The Hohenzollerns--928-1417 • Thomas Carlyle

... dead thou art, from what high things Thy youth is outcast, and the pride of kings Fallen! And this the goddess deemeth good! If ever mortal hand be dark with blood; Nay, touch a new-made mother or one slain In war, her ban is on him. 'Tis a stain She driveth from her outer walls; and then Herself doth drink this blood of slaughtered men? Could ever Leto, she of the great King Beloved, be mother to so gross a thing? These tales be lies, false as those feastings wild Of Tantalus and Gods that tore ...

— The Iphigenia in Tauris • Euripides

... peace negotiations, or anything like that. Anyway, Aunty has softened up to the extent of lettin' me come around once a week without makin' me assume a disguise, or crawl in through the coal chute. Course I'm still under suspicion; but while the ban ain't lifted complete she don't treat me quite so much like a porch climber ...

— Torchy, Private Sec. • Sewell Ford

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