FromMiddle Englishforbannen, partly fromMiddle Englishfor- +bannen, equivalent tofor- +‎ban; and partly fromOld Frenchforbenir(“to banish”). Cognate withSaterland Frisianferbonne(“to banish”),West Frisianferbanne(“to banish”),Dutchverbannen(“to banish”),German Low Germanverbannen(“to banish”),Germanverbannen(“to banish”),Swedishförbanna(“to curse, damn”).

• Rhymes:-æn

forban (third-person singular simple presentforbans,present participleforbanning,simple past and past participleforbanned)

1. (transitive, rare, archaic, poetic or obsolete) Toexile;banish.
   • 1876, James John Garth Wilkinson,On Human Science: Good and Evil, and on Divine Revelation:

     That lower down it constitutes correspondential phytostatics, or pressure of vegetable life, grasping matter close with prolonged human fingers in the trees, andforbanning materialism from the very stones.

   • 1918,Clark Ashton Smith, "Satan Unrepentant"[1] (also on page 295 of the 2014 collectionThe Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies):

     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

   • 2013, Daniel Lord Smail,The Consumption of Justice:

     Kenneth Meredith has noted that thecoutumiers of northern France "usually called for the confiscation of the property of both executed criminals and persons who had beenforbanned."

Inherited fromMiddle Frenchfourban, fromOld Frenchforsban,forban(“pirate, privateer, banishment”), deverbal offorbenir(“to banish, to exile”), fromFrankish*frabannijan(“to ban, banish”), fromProto-Germanic*fra- +*bannijaną(“to request, damn, curse”), fromProto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-(“to say, pronounce”). Cognate withDutchverbannen(“to outcast, banish, exile”),Germanverbannen(“to banish, exile”),Norwegianforbanne(“to curse”). More atfor-,ban.

• IPA^(key): /fɔʁ.bɑ̃/

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forban m (pluralforbans)

1. (archaic)pirate
2. rogue,scoundrel; anunscrupulous individual capable of any wrongdoing

• bandit
• corsaire
• crapule
• flibustier
• gredin
• pirate

• “forban”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Deverbal offorbanir, fromFrankish*frabannan.

forbanoblique singular, m (oblique pluralforbans,nominative singularforbans,nominative pluralforban)

1. banishment (state of being banished)

• Godefroy, Frédéric,Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes duIX^e auXV^e siècle (1881) (forban)

Borrowed fromFrenchforban.

forban m (pluralforbani)

1. pirate

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