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 vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.
To ostracize.
A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote.
A rejection; a vote against admitting someone.
A kind of large black sweet; a niggerball.
A game, a standardized version of the English version of eight-ball.
A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions of engraved work.