BAN
Ban
Ban was a noble title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Ban (title)
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ban
Noun
- prohibition
- 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 arriere-ban: in the 16th c., French usage created a distinction between ban and arriere-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.
- A curse or anathema.
- 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.
Noun (etymology 2)
- A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Romanian leu
- A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Moldavian леу
Noun (etymology 3)
- A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
Noun (etymology 4)
- A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.
Verb
- To summon; call out.
- To anathematise; pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; place under a ban.
- To curse; execrate.
- To prohibit; interdict; proscribe; forbid or block from participation.
- To curse; utter curses or maledictions.
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