Bans
/bænz/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:6 ptsWWF:8 pts4 letters
Definition of Bans
noun
- Prohibition.
- A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms.
"Bans is common and ordinary amongst the Feudists, and signifies a proclamation, or any public notice."
- 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.
"France was at such a Pinch..that they call'd their Ban and Arriere Ban, the assembling whereof had been long discussed, and in a manner antiquated."
- 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.
verb
noun
- A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
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