ban

To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.transitive

• Bare feet are banned in this establishment.

To summon; to call out.obsoletetransitive

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

To curse; to execrate.transitive

• They will curse and ban[…]even into the deep pit of hell, all that gainsay their appetite.

To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.ambitransitive

• :“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”

A prohibition.

• That sacred fruit, sacred to abstinence, Much more to taste it under ban to touch
• California has been on the forefront of plastic bag bans. In 2007, Mr. Newsom, as mayor of San Francisco, signed a law that made the city the first in the nation to ban plastic bags in grocery stores.

A public proclamation or edict; also, a summons by public proclamation, and in early use especially a summons to arms.

• Bans is common and ordinary amongst the Feudists, and signifies a proclamation, or any publike notice.

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.

• […] he hath sente abroade to assemble his van and arriere van; wherby, and with the reste of his forces, he prepareth him selfe to enter this countrey; […]

A curse or anathema.obsolete

• With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected

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.

A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.

A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.

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

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