banned

adj.outlawed

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Word Origin & History

Old English bannan "to summon, command, proclaim," from Proto-Germanic *bannan "proclaim, command, forbid" (cf. Old High German bannan "to command or forbid under threat of punishment," German bannen "banish, expel, curse"), originally "to speak publicly," from PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak" (cf. Old Irish bann "law," Armenian ban "word;" see fame (n.)).

Main modern sense of "to prohibit" (late 14c.) is from Old Norse cognate banna "to curse, prohibit," and probably in part from Old French ban, which meant "outlawry, banishment," among other things (see banal) and was a borrowing from Germanic. The sense evolution in Germanic was from "speak" to "proclaim a threat" to (in Norse, German, etc.) "curse."

The Germanic root, borrowed in Latin and French, has been productive, e.g. banish, bandit, contraband, etc. Related: Banned; banning. Banned in Boston dates from 1920s, in allusion to the excessive zeal and power of that city's Watch and Ward Society.

Example Sentences forbanned

I'm so sick of hearing that man's name that I could wish it banned.

An offence against table-manners is banned like an attack on the Church.

It was all banned about fifty years ago, on account of the congestion.

He banned the obtruding priest by name and all his accomplices.

Premacy; as, to gain divorce, The foreign Pope is banned perforce.

This unfortunate intimacy caused Gwen to be banned the more.

Since such a man was banned by the world, which was to be despised?

To ask all did not seem selfishness to her; it was asking nothing or too little that she banned.

It is banned now even from our fancy as irrevocably as the elf-kingdom of the nursery.

These items are banned from carriage to China in British flag vessels.

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