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v. To prohibit, especially by official decree: The city council banned billboards on most streets. See Synonyms at forbid.

v. South African Under the former system of apartheid, to deprive (a person suspected of illegal activity) of the right of free movement and association with others.

v. Archaic To curse.

n. An excommunication or condemnation by church officials.

n. A prohibition imposed by law or official decree: a ban on cigarette smoking on airplanes.

n. Censure, condemnation, or disapproval expressed especially by public opinion.

n. A curse; an imprecation.

n. A summons to arms in feudal times.

n. See Table at currency.

v. To summon; call out.

v. To anathematise; pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; place under a ban.

v. To curse; execrate.

v. To prohibit; interdict; proscribe; forbid or block from participation.

v. To curse; utter curses or maledictions.

n. prohibition

n. A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms.

n. 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.

n. A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Romanian leu

n. A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Moldavian леу

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

n. A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.

n. A kind of fine muslin, made in the East Indies from the fiber of the banana leaf stalks.

n. A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.

n. 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.

n. Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense).

n. An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription.

n. A curse or anathema.

n. 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.

v. To curse; to invoke evil upon.

v. To forbid; to interdict.

verb-intransitive. To curse; to swear.

n. An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia.

To summon; call out.

To anathematize; pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; place under a ban.

To curse; execrate.

To prohibit; interdict; proscribe.

To curse; utter curses or maledictions.

n. In feudal times: A public proclamation or edict; especially, a proclamation summoning to arms.

n. The array or body so summoned. See arrière-ban, 2.

n. A proclamation made at the head of a body of troops, or in the cantonments of an army, by beat of drum or sound of trumpet, to announce the appointment of an officer or the punishment of a soldier, to enforce discipline, etc.

n. A proclamation or notice given in a church of an intended marriage: generally used in the plural, bans, usually spelled banns (which see).

n. An edict of interdiction; a sentence of outlawry.

n. Interdiction; authoritative prohibition.

n. A formal ecclesiastical denunciation; curse; excommunication; anathema.

n. A malediction; expression of execration; curse.

n. A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban.

n. A mulct paid to the bishop, in addition to other penalties, for certain crimes connected with sacred things, chiefly sacrilege and perjury.

n. A title formerly given to the military chiefs who guarded the southern marches of Hungary (the Banat), but now only to the governor of Croatia and Slavonia, who is appointed by the emperor of Austria as king of Hungary, and is responsible to the landtag of Croatia and Slavonia.

n. A fine sort of muslin made in the East Indies from the leaf-stalk fibers of the banana.

n. A Rumanian coin and money of account: its value is that of the French centime.

n. a bachelor's degree in nursing

v. prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure

v. ban from a place of residence, as for punishment

v. expel from a community or group

n. 100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania

n. 100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova

n. an official prohibition or edict against something

n. a decree that prohibits something

v. forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)

"The book says that Reiss 'ban on Sinn Féin fundraising in the US following the murder by IRA members of Robert McCartney had the support of the British security services even though the Northern Ireland Office opposed the ban."

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