Definitions
1.nounProhibition.
2.nounA 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."
3.nounThe 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."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."
4.nounA curse or anathema.
5.nounA 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.
6.verbTo summon; to call out.
7.verbTo anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
8.verbTo curse; to execrate.
9.verbTo prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation."Bare feet are banned in this establishment."
10.verbTo curse; to utter curses or maledictions.