Meaning of forban | Babel Free

Definitions

To exile; banish.

archaic, obsolete, poetic, rare, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“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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