How to pronounce “ban”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive, obsolete) To summon; to call out.
• (transitive) To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
• (transitive) To curse; to execrate.
• (transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
• (ambitransitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
• [Noun]
• A prohibition.
• A public proclamation or edict; also, a summons by public proclamation, and in early use especially a summons to arms.
• The gathering of the (French) king’s vassals for war; the whole body of vassals assembled this way, or liable to be summoned; originally the same as arriere-ban, but distinct since the 16th century, following French usage—see arriere-ban.
• (obsolete) 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.

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