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Definition of Ban

Ban A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation. 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. Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense). An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription. A curse or anathema. 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. To curse; to invoke evil upon. To forbid; to interdict. To curse; to swear. An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia. Related Definitions: Against, Also, An, Anathema, Ancient, And, Army, As, Assembled, Ban, Banns, Bishop, Body, By, Calling, Church, Common, Curse, Delinquent, Duty, Eastern, Edict, Effective, Evil, For, Forbid, French, Guilty, Hungary, In, Interdict, Interdiction, Invoke, King, Laid, Liable, Mandatory, Marriage, Military, Most, Mulct, Not, Notice, Now, Of, Offending, One, Or, Order, Other, Paid, Part, Pecuniary, Penalty, Population, Present, Proclaimed, Proclamation, Prohibition, Prohibitory, Proposed, Proscription, Public, Sacrilege, See, Sense, Service, Spelling, Standing, Summoned, Summons, Swear, The, This, Thus, Title, To, Together, Upon, Usage, Viceroy, Warden

Ban Quotations I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying. Barack Obama Every time you decide to ban something, you always end up regretting it. Christopher Brown No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages. Judy Biggert Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal. Leon Kass Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual. Sue Kelly

Ban Translations ban in French is ban ban in German is verbieten, Bann, Verbot, Verbot, sperren

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