Ban

1. n. A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
2. n. A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.
3. n. A calling together of the king’s (esp. the French king’s) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army.
4. n. Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense).
5. n. An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription.
6. n. A curse or anathema.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.