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| ||Ban |
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A kind of fine
muslin, made in the East Indies from the fiber of the banana leaf
stalks.
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| Ban (ban) |
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| Ban |
| [AS. bann
command, edict; akin to D. ban, Icel. bann, Dan. band,
OHG. ban, G. bann, a public proclamation, as of interdiction
or excommunication, Gr. fa`nai to say, L. fari to speak,
Skr. |
A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or
prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.
A calling together of the
king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service] also, the
body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and
Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty
and not in the standing army.
Notice of a proposed marriage,
proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this
sense).
An interdiction, prohibition, or
proscription.
A curse or anathema.
A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a
delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one
guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
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To curse; to
invoke evil upon.
To forbid; to interdict.
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An ancient title of the
warden of the eastern marches of Hungary] now, a title of the viceroy of
Croatia and Slavonia.
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