ban

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

Bare feet are banned in this establishment.

To whom the goodly earth and air Are banned

To summon; to call out.

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

To curse; to execrate.

They will curse and ban[…]even into the deep pit of hell, all that gainsay their appetite.

To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.

:“I seldom ban, sir,” said he to the man; “but if you play any of your hound's-foot tricks, and leave puir Berwick before he's sorted, to rin after spuilzie, deil be wi' me if I do not give your craig a thraw”

A prohibition.

That sacred fruit, sacred to abstinence, Much more to taste it under ban to touch

California has been on the forefront of plastic bag bans. In 2007, Mr. Newsom, as mayor of San Francisco, signed a law that made the city the first in the nation to ban plastic bags in grocery stores.

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

Bans is common and ordinary amongst the Feudists, and signifies a proclamation, or any publike notice.

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.

[…] he hath sente abroade to assemble his van and arriere van; wherby, and with the reste of his forces, he prepareth him selfe to enter this countrey; […]

[…] all the Ban and the Arrierban, are met arm’d in the field, to choose a King […]

A curse or anathema.

With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected

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.