Arriere-ban: Definition and part of speech

Arriere-ban

n. 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.

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.

n. The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
n. Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.
n. The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.
n. An imposing series of things.
n. Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
n. A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
n. The panel itself.

n. One who arrays. In some early English statutes, applied to an officer who had care of the soldiers’ armor, and who saw them duly accoutered.

n. That which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid, though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due when some part has been paid; arrearage; — commonly used in the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes.
adv. To or in the rear; behind; backwards.