What does forban mean?
Forban means (transitive, rare, archaic, poetic or obsolete) To exile; banish..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(transitive, rare, archaic, poetic or obsolete) To exile; banish..
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
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.
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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Forban means (transitive, rare, archaic, poetic or obsolete) To exile; banish..
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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
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