To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
To curse; to execrate.
To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
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.
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.
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.
Prohibition.
A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms.
A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.
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.
To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
To retract; to recant.
To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing.
The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
The opening in a pulley block between the sheave and shell through which the rope passes.