Definition of "ban"

ban¹

/bæn/

verb
third-person singular simple present bans, present participle banning, simple past and past participle banned
1. (transitive, obsolete) To summon; to call out.
2. (transitive) To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
3. (transitive) To curse; to execrate.
  Quotations
  They will curse and ban […] even into the deep pit of hell, all that gainsay their appetite.
  c. 1555, Hugh Latimer, a sermon
4. (transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
  Quotations
  To whom the goodly earth and air Are banned
  1816, Lord Byron, The Prisoner of Chillon
  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.
  2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian
  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.
  2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
5. (transitive, intransitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
  Quotations
  :“I seldom ban, sir,” said he to the man; “but if you play any of your hound's-foot tricks, and leave puir Berwick before he's sorted, to rin after spuilzie, deil be wi' me if I do not give your craig a thraw”
  1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
noun
plural bans
1. Prohibition.
  Quotations
  That sacred fruit, sacred to abstinence,Much more to taste it under ban to touch
  1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
2. A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms.
3. 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.
4. (obsolete) A curse or anathema.
  Quotations
  With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected
  c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene ii]
5. 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.

ban²

/bæn/

noun
plural bani
1. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.
2. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.

ban³

/bæn/

noun
plural bans
1. A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.

ban⁴

/bæn/

noun
plural bans
1. A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.

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