ban : Idioms & Phrases

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arriere-ban

Ar*riere"-ban` noun
Etymology
F., fr. OE. arban, heriban, fr. OHG. hariban, heriban, G. heerbann, the calling together of an army; OHG. heri an army + ban a public call or order. The French have misunderstood their old word, and have changed it into arrière-ban, though arrière has no connection with its proper meaning. See Ban, Abandon.
Definitions
  1. A proclamation, as of the French kings, calling not only their immediate feudatories, but the vassals of these feudatories, to take the field for war; also, the body of vassals called or liable to be called to arms, as in ancient France.
Webster 1913

Ban of the empire

  • (German Hist.), an imperial interdict by which political rights and privileges, as those of a prince, city, or district, were taken away.
Webster 1913

banning-order

  • noun an order that bans something
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test ban

  • noun a ban on the testing of nuclear weapons that is mutually agreed to by countries that possess nuclear weapons
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