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ban | baned |

As a proper noun ban

is .

As a verb baned is

(bane).

ban

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bannen, from (etyl) . See also (l), (l).

Verb

  • (obsolete) To summon; call out.
  • To anathematise; pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; place under a ban.
  • To curse; execrate.
  • * (Spenser)
  • * (Sir Walter Scott)
  • To prohibit; interdict; proscribe; forbid or block from participation.
  • * (Byron)
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 14, author=Steven Morris, work=Guardian
  • , title= Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave , passage=Jailing her on Wednesday, magistrate Liz Clyne told Robins: "You have shown little remorse either for the death of the kitten or the trauma to your former friend Sarah Knutton." She was also banned from keeping animals for 10 years.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
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  • To curse; utter curses or maledictions.
  • Synonyms
    * forbid * prohibit * disallow

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • prohibition
  • * Milton
  • 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.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Hecate's ban
  • 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.
  • See also

    * banns

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (bani)
  • A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Romanian (l)
  • A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Moldavian
  • Etymology 3

    From (Banburismus); coined by .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
  • Derived terms
    * deciban
    Synonyms
    * dit, hartley
    See also
    * bit, nat, qubit

    Etymology 4

    From (etyl) (term) (compare Serbo-Croatian .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.
  • baned

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bane)
  • Anagrams

    *

    bane

    English

    (wikipedia bane)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) bane, from (etyl) bana, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cause of misery or death; an affliction or curse
  • the bane of my existence
  • * Herbert
  • Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe.
  • (dated) Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants
  • (obsolete) A killer, murderer, slayer
  • (obsolete) destruction; death
  • * Milton
  • The cup of deception spiced and tempered to their bane .
  • A disease of sheep; the rot.
  • Antonyms
    * (affliction or curse) boon
    Derived terms
    * baneberry * baneful * boon and bane * wolfsbane

    Verb

    (ban)
  • To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.
  • To be the bane of.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) northern dialect ban, from (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, Scotland) A bone
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