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forban

verb

Etymology

From Middle English forbannen, partly from Middle English for- + bannen, equivalent to for- + ban; and partly from Old French forbenir (“to banish”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian ferbonne (“to banish”), West Frisian ferbanne (“to banish”), Dutch verbannen (“to banish”), German Low German verbannen (“to banish”), German verbannen (“to banish”), Swedish förbanna (“to curse, damn”).

  1. derived from forbenir — “to banish”
  2. derived from for-
  3. inherited from forbannen

Definitions

  1. To exile

    To exile; banish.

    • That lower down it constitutes correspondential phytostatics, or pressure of vegetable life, grasping matter close with prolonged human fingers in the trees, and forbanning materialism from the very stones.
    • Lost from those archangelic thrones that star, Fadeless and fixed, heaven's light of azure bliss; Forbanned of all His splendor and depressed Beyond the birth of the first sun, and lower Than the last star's decline
    • Kenneth Meredith has noted that the coutumiers of northern France "usually called for the confiscation of the property of both executed criminals and persons who had been forbanned."

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA