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ban | quit |

As a proper noun ban

is .

As a verb quit is

.

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)
  • , title= 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.}}
  • 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.
  • quit

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) quiter, (etyl) quiter, from , ultimately from (etyl) quietus .

    Verb

  • To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:Enkindle all the sparks of nature / To quit this horrid act.
  • *(Edward Fairfax) (c.1580-1635)
  • *:that judge that quits each soul his hire
  • To repay (someone) for (something).
  • *:
  • *:I was but late att a Iustynge / and there I Iusted with a knyghte that is broder vnto kynge Pellam / and twyes smote I hym doune / & thenne he promysed to quyte me on my best frynde / and so he wounded my sone that can not be hole tyll I haue of that knyghtes blood
  • (obsolete) To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.v:
  • *:Vnthankfull wretch (said he) is this the meed, / With which her soueraigne mercy thou doest quight ?
  • To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
  • *
  • *:Be strong and quit' yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: ' quit yourselves like men, and fight.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:Samson hath quit himself like Samson.
  • To carry through; to go through to the end.
  • *(Samuel Daniel) (1562-1619)
  • *:Never worthy prince a day did quit / With greater hazard and with more renown.
  • (label) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
  • *(William Wake) (1657-1737)
  • *:To quit you of this fear, you have already looked Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it?
  • (label) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:God will relent, and quit thee all his debt.
  • (label) To abandon, renounce (a thing).
  • (label) To leave (a place).
  • To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
  • :
  • To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
  • :
  • To close (an application).
  • (quit)
  • Derived terms
    * quitter
    Usage notes
    * The past tense of quit'' is now ''quit'' for most speakers and writers; dictionaries usually allow ''quitted'' as an alternative, but it is rare or nonexistent in North America and Australia, and outnumbered by ''quit'' by about 16 to 1 in the British National Corpus. Quitted is more commonly used to mean "left". ''ie. She quitted her job.
    References
    Pam Peters, The Cambridge Guide to English Usage , Cambridge University Press, p. 453.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.
  • Derived terms
    * bananaquit