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(obsolete) To summon; to call out.

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

To curse; to execrate.

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

To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.

Prohibition.

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

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).

(obsolete) A curse or anathema.

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.

{{n-g|A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.}}