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 public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms.
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.
A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.
A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
Prohibition.
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.
verb
(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.
(transitive, intransitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
(transitive, obsolete) To summon; to call out.
nab
nab
noun
(locksmithing) The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot.
The cock of a gunlock.
The summit of a hill.
verb
(informal, transitive) To grab or snatch something.
(informal, transitive) To seize, arrest or take into custody (a criminal or fugitive).
