Ban vs June - What's the difference?
ban | june |
(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)
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, title= To curse; utter curses or maledictions.
prohibition
* Milton
A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms.
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.
(obsolete) A curse or anathema.
* Shakespeare
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.
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
A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.
The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar, following May and preceding July. Abbreviation: Jun' or '
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, title=[http://openlibrary.org/works/OL5535161W Mr. Pratt's Patients], chapter=1
, passage='Twas early June , the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
for a girl born in June, used since the end of the 19th century.
* 2002 (Kate Atkinson), Not the End of the World , Doubleday, ISBN 0385604726, page 29:
*:Her parents were old, really old. That's why they'd given her such an old-fashioned name. June', because she was born in June. If she'd been born in November would they have called her November? '''June''' was a name for women in sitcoms and soap operas, the name of women who knit with synthetic wool and follow recipes that use cornflakes, not the name of a thirty-year-old with a ring in her nose ('Oh, ' June' .)
As a proper noun ban
is .As an adverb june is
in a young manner, youthfully.ban
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bannen, from (etyl) . See also (l), (l).Verb
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.}}
A new prescription, passage=No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.}}
Synonyms
* forbid * prohibit * disallowNoun
(en noun)- under ban to touch
- Bans is common and ordinary amongst the Feudists, and signifies a proclamation, or any public notice.
- 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.
- Hecate's ban
