(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. t.) To curse; to invoke evil upon.
(v. t.) To forbid; to interdict.
(v. i.) 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.
