contrabandn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈkɒntrəband/, U.S.

/ˈkɑntrəˌbænd/

Forms: Also 1500s contrabanda, 1500s–1800s counterband, 1600s–1700s contreband.

Etymology: < Spanish contrabanda smuggling, < Italian contrabando (now contrabb- ) ‘unlawful dealing against law or proclamation’ (Florio), < contra against + bando proclamation, statute < late Latin bandum , bannum : see bandon n., ban n.¹ The French contrebande (from Spanish or Italian) gave the 16–17th cent. English forms counter-, contre-; but the actual form in contra- appears to have come directly from the contraband traffic with the Spanish possessions c1600.

A. n.

1. Illegal or prohibited traffic: smuggling.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > [noun] > smuggling

contrabandc1540

smuggling1698

running business1741

fair trade1815

free trade1815

smugglery1895

c1540 Image Ipocrysy ii, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 437 For her within his lande Shoulde be no counterband.

1588 T. Hickock tr. C. Federici Voy. & Trauaile f. 13^v They that go for Ormus, carrie no Pepper but by Contrabanda.

1775 E. Burke Speech Amer. Taxation 9 This folly has thrown open folding-doors to contraband.

1789 Ld. Auckland Corr. (1861) II. 195 To prevent my carrying away piastres, which is a great article of contraband.

1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VI. lxvi. 345 There was little smuggling or contraband among them.

1873 J. Morley Rousseau II. 54 The whole trade in books was a sort of contraband.

2. Anything prohibited to be imported or exported; goods imported or exported contrary to law or proclamation; smuggled goods. (Also humorously for anything stolen.)

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > smuggled or contraband goods

contraband1588

running1699

run1832

magendo1977

1588 T. Hickock tr. C. Federici Voy. & Trauaile f. 12^v All the spices and drugs that is brought to Mecha, is stolne from thence as Contrabanda.

1713 Acct. South-west Barbary 121 They deal in Gold, Silver and Brimstone, and all manner of Contrabands, viz. Brass, Iron, Marble.

1826 J. H. Reynolds & T. Hood Odes & Addr. (ed. 3) 64 Thy partridge body, always stuff'd With waifs, and strays, and contrabands!

3. (In full contraband of war.) Anything (esp. arms, stores, or other things available for hostile purposes) forbidden to be supplied by neutrals to belligerents in time of war, and liable by the law of nations to be captured and confiscated. Also absolute contraband (see quots.); opposed to conditional contraband, anything (such as coal, provisions, vehicles) that may be treated as contraband if it is intended for warlike purposes.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > [noun]

gearc1275

armourc1300

armsc1325

armingc1330

ordnancea1393

armourer?c1400

artilleryc1405

habiliments1422

artry1447

armaturea1460

apparamenta1464

atour1480

munitionc1515

furnishments1559

furniture1569

equipage1579

ammunition?1588

magazine1588

victuals1653

war1667

armament1668

contraband1753

stuff1883

society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > smuggled or contraband goods > during war

contraband1753

1753 Scots Mag. Mar. 121/1 They are carrying contraband to the enemy.

1804 Ann. Rev. & Hist. Lit. 1803 2 306 Contraband of war will always be seized by the powerful..during a blockade.

1826 J. Kent Comm. Amer. Law I. vii. 125 It is natural that they should desire to diminish the list of contraband as much as possible.

1865 J. Bright Speeches Amer. Question 63 As to Messrs. Slidell and Mason being or not being contraband, the General answers for it..that they bore that character.

1879 J. Lubbock Addresses, Polit. & Educ. vii. 129 With the exception of contraband of war.

1905 T. E. Holland Let. to ‘The Times’ 1 July (1909) 109 Russia consented to recognise the..distinction between ‘absolute’ and ‘conditional’ contraband... Cotton has now followed foodstuffs into the category of ‘conditional’ contraband.

1939 W. Arnold-Forster Blockade, 1914–1919 6 Absolute Contraband consisted of articles used only for military purposes, such as artillery.

1939 W. Arnold-Forster Blockade, 1914–1919 6 Conditional Contraband consisted of certain commodities that might be used either for military or civilian purposes, including food, fuel, and lubricants.

4. U.S. During the American Civil War: a slave, esp. a fugitive or captured slave.From a decision of General Butler in 1861 that such slaves were contraband of war.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > slave > black

jong1615

servant1643

New Negro1701

salt-water Negro1708

boy1796

blackbird1853

intelligent contraband1861

contraband1862

1862 W. H. Russell in Times 27 Mar. The first intimation received by the Federal forces..came from a contraband, a negro boy.

1862 Gilmore in Reminisc. Abolitionist (1877) vi. 189 You will at once send to my quarters the four contrabands, John, Abel, George and Dick.

1863 W. Phillips Speeches xxiv. 545 That victory was planned in the brain of that contraband.

1890 D. B. Frankenburger in W.F. Allen's Ess. & Monogr. 11 The destitution and grotesque humor of contrabands in camp and school.

B. adj. [attributive use of the noun.]

1. Prohibited by law, proclamation, or treaty, to be imported or exported: as contraband goods, etc. So contraband trade, contraband trader: trade, or a trader, in contraband goods.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > [adjective] > relating to smuggling

contraband1656

run1698

smuggled1707

smuggling1813

bootlegged1922

1656 O. Cromwell Lett. 28 Aug. To prevent the coming of any materials for shipping, or other contraband goods into Cadiz.

1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 350 To what purpose should he declare by Law such Goods to be contraband..?

1753 Scots Mag. Mar. 112/2 If the neutral ships had carried on any contraband trade.

1769 H. Walpole Let. 7 Sept. in Corr. (1941) X. 289 Plate..is not counterband in its metallic capacity, but totally so in its personal.

1814 F. Burney Wanderer V. 17 Men..from beyond seas, with counterband merchandize.

1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xiv, in Writings I. 140 A large sympathy for contraband traders.

1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 345 Spain tried to diminish the vast contraband traffic.

2. figurative. Forbidden, illegitimate, unauthorized.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > rule of law > illegality > [adjective]

unleefula1382

unlawfula1387

wrongfulc1386

unleesomec1400

unlisible?c1425

wrong1480

unlegitimate1602

illicit1606

illegal1626

non licet1628

adulterine1640

unlegal1640

illegitimate1645

illegitime1669

wrongous1671

contraband1686

illicitous1693

sly1829

unprocedural1929

bent1930

bust-out1934

bandulu1980

society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [adjective] > not permitting > not permitted

unluveda1200

disallowable1442

unallowable1560

unletten1575

unpermitted1591

illicit1606

unallowed1632

contraband1686

illicitous1693

non-admissible1766

unpermissible1775

inadmissible1776

impermissible1829

1686 Bp. G. Burnet Some Lett. conc. Switzerland iii. 150 A contraband Nobility.

1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 190 The ill Consequences these counterband Praises have.

a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) i. 61 All Expressions of Positiveness..were after some time made contraband.

a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) III. iv. 96 Zeal in propagating counterband metaphysics.

1820 R. Southey Life Wesley II. 478 Such an experiment might have cost a contraband preacher his life.

Derivatives

ˈcontrabandage n. system or practice of contraband traffic, smuggling.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1885 Birmingh. Weekly Post 14 Feb. 812 A regular system of contrabandage is kept up, to the loss of the Government.

contraˈbandery n. Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1843 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 10 546 The gestes et faits of the heroes of Vraeschoot contrabandery.

ˈcontrabanˌdism n. Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Aug. 11 Thanks to thee, thou bold, true son of Massachusetts, author of the new dictionary of contrabandism—Major-General Benjamin F. Butler.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

contrabandv.¹

Forms: Also 1600s counterband.

Etymology: < contraband n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcontraband.

†1. transitive. ‘To import goods prohibited’ (Johnson); to smuggle. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > trade in (goods) illegally or immorally [verb (transitive)] > smuggle

contraband1615

smugglea1687

run1695

to run the cutter1870

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 87 Christian shippes..are there also searched for concealed Slaues, and goods contrabanded.

1666 London Gaz. No. 68/4 One Huzee..had liberty to Lade home with such Goods as were not Counterbanded.

1700 J. Dryden Fables Pref. sig. *Aij Let them be stav'd or forfeited, like Counterbanded Goods.

1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Contraband, contrabanded goods.

†2. To declare contraband, to prohibit. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > prohibition > prohibit [verb (transitive)] > proscribe or interdict

to lay in forbodea1400

outlawc1400

suspend1488

interdict1502

inhibita1513

proscribe1622

contraband1678

ban1816

red-line1958

1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. iii. 234 The Law severely contrabands, Our taking business, of Mens hands.

3. intransitive. To smuggle.Apparently an isolated use.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > trade illegally or immorally [verb (intransitive)] > trade in sordid or petty manner > smuggle

smuggle1697

contraband1858

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. viii. iv. 325 Scoundrel, what do you want; contrabanding in these seas?

Derivatives

ˈcontrabanded adj.

ΚΠ

1626 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) Contrabanded, uncustomed. [See also 1.]

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	contraband
释义	contrabandn.adj. Brit. /ˈkɒntrəband/, U.S. /ˈkɑntrəˌbænd/ Forms: Also 1500s contrabanda, 1500s–1800s counterband, 1600s–1700s contreband. Etymology: < Spanish contrabanda smuggling, < Italian contrabando (now contrabb- ) ‘unlawful dealing against law or proclamation’ (Florio), < contra against + bando proclamation, statute < late Latin bandum , bannum : see bandon n., ban n.¹ The French contrebande (from Spanish or Italian) gave the 16–17th cent. English forms counter-, contre-; but the actual form in contra- appears to have come directly from the contraband traffic with the Spanish possessions c1600. A. n. 1. Illegal or prohibited traffic: smuggling. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > [noun] > smuggling contrabandc1540 smuggling1698 running business1741 fair trade1815 free trade1815 smugglery1895 c1540 Image Ipocrysy ii, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 437 For her within his lande Shoulde be no counterband. 1588 T. Hickock tr. C. Federici Voy. & Trauaile f. 13^v They that go for Ormus, carrie no Pepper but by Contrabanda. 1775 E. Burke Speech Amer. Taxation 9 This folly has thrown open folding-doors to contraband. 1789 Ld. Auckland Corr. (1861) II. 195 To prevent my carrying away piastres, which is a great article of contraband. 1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VI. lxvi. 345 There was little smuggling or contraband among them. 1873 J. Morley Rousseau II. 54 The whole trade in books was a sort of contraband. 2. Anything prohibited to be imported or exported; goods imported or exported contrary to law or proclamation; smuggled goods. (Also humorously for anything stolen.) ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > smuggled or contraband goods contraband1588 running1699 run1832 magendo1977 1588 T. Hickock tr. C. Federici Voy. & Trauaile f. 12^v All the spices and drugs that is brought to Mecha, is stolne from thence as Contrabanda. 1713 Acct. South-west Barbary 121 They deal in Gold, Silver and Brimstone, and all manner of Contrabands, viz. Brass, Iron, Marble. 1826 J. H. Reynolds & T. Hood Odes & Addr. (ed. 3) 64 Thy partridge body, always stuff'd With waifs, and strays, and contrabands! 3. (In full contraband of war.) Anything (esp. arms, stores, or other things available for hostile purposes) forbidden to be supplied by neutrals to belligerents in time of war, and liable by the law of nations to be captured and confiscated. Also absolute contraband (see quots.); opposed to conditional contraband, anything (such as coal, provisions, vehicles) that may be treated as contraband if it is intended for warlike purposes. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > [noun] gearc1275 armourc1300 armsc1325 armingc1330 ordnancea1393 armourer?c1400 artilleryc1405 habiliments1422 artry1447 armaturea1460 apparamenta1464 atour1480 munitionc1515 furnishments1559 furniture1569 equipage1579 ammunition?1588 magazine1588 victuals1653 war1667 armament1668 contraband1753 stuff1883 society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > smuggled or contraband goods > during war contraband1753 1753 Scots Mag. Mar. 121/1 They are carrying contraband to the enemy. 1804 Ann. Rev. & Hist. Lit. 1803 2 306 Contraband of war will always be seized by the powerful..during a blockade. 1826 J. Kent Comm. Amer. Law I. vii. 125 It is natural that they should desire to diminish the list of contraband as much as possible. 1865 J. Bright Speeches Amer. Question 63 As to Messrs. Slidell and Mason being or not being contraband, the General answers for it..that they bore that character. 1879 J. Lubbock Addresses, Polit. & Educ. vii. 129 With the exception of contraband of war. 1905 T. E. Holland Let. to ‘The Times’ 1 July (1909) 109 Russia consented to recognise the..distinction between ‘absolute’ and ‘conditional’ contraband... Cotton has now followed foodstuffs into the category of ‘conditional’ contraband. 1939 W. Arnold-Forster Blockade, 1914–1919 6 Absolute Contraband consisted of articles used only for military purposes, such as artillery. 1939 W. Arnold-Forster Blockade, 1914–1919 6 Conditional Contraband consisted of certain commodities that might be used either for military or civilian purposes, including food, fuel, and lubricants. 4. U.S. During the American Civil War: a slave, esp. a fugitive or captured slave.From a decision of General Butler in 1861 that such slaves were contraband of war. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > slave > black jong1615 servant1643 New Negro1701 salt-water Negro1708 boy1796 blackbird1853 intelligent contraband1861 contraband1862 1862 W. H. Russell in Times 27 Mar. The first intimation received by the Federal forces..came from a contraband, a negro boy. 1862 Gilmore in Reminisc. Abolitionist (1877) vi. 189 You will at once send to my quarters the four contrabands, John, Abel, George and Dick. 1863 W. Phillips Speeches xxiv. 545 That victory was planned in the brain of that contraband. 1890 D. B. Frankenburger in W.F. Allen's Ess. & Monogr. 11 The destitution and grotesque humor of contrabands in camp and school. B. adj. [attributive use of the noun.] 1. Prohibited by law, proclamation, or treaty, to be imported or exported: as contraband goods, etc. So contraband trade, contraband trader: trade, or a trader, in contraband goods. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > [adjective] > relating to smuggling contraband1656 run1698 smuggled1707 smuggling1813 bootlegged1922 1656 O. Cromwell Lett. 28 Aug. To prevent the coming of any materials for shipping, or other contraband goods into Cadiz. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 350 To what purpose should he declare by Law such Goods to be contraband..? 1753 Scots Mag. Mar. 112/2 If the neutral ships had carried on any contraband trade. 1769 H. Walpole Let. 7 Sept. in Corr. (1941) X. 289 Plate..is not counterband in its metallic capacity, but totally so in its personal. 1814 F. Burney Wanderer V. 17 Men..from beyond seas, with counterband merchandize. 1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xiv, in Writings I. 140 A large sympathy for contraband traders. 1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 345 Spain tried to diminish the vast contraband traffic. 2. figurative. Forbidden, illegitimate, unauthorized. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > illegality > [adjective] unleefula1382 unlawfula1387 wrongfulc1386 unleesomec1400 unlisible?c1425 wrong1480 unlegitimate1602 illicit1606 illegal1626 non licet1628 adulterine1640 unlegal1640 illegitimate1645 illegitime1669 wrongous1671 contraband1686 illicitous1693 sly1829 unprocedural1929 bent1930 bust-out1934 bandulu1980 society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [adjective] > not permitting > not permitted unluveda1200 disallowable1442 unallowable1560 unletten1575 unpermitted1591 illicit1606 unallowed1632 contraband1686 illicitous1693 non-admissible1766 unpermissible1775 inadmissible1776 impermissible1829 1686 Bp. G. Burnet Some Lett. conc. Switzerland iii. 150 A contraband Nobility. 1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 190 The ill Consequences these counterband Praises have. a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) i. 61 All Expressions of Positiveness..were after some time made contraband. a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) III. iv. 96 Zeal in propagating counterband metaphysics. 1820 R. Southey Life Wesley II. 478 Such an experiment might have cost a contraband preacher his life. Derivatives ˈcontrabandage n. system or practice of contraband traffic, smuggling.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1885 Birmingh. Weekly Post 14 Feb. 812 A regular system of contrabandage is kept up, to the loss of the Government. contraˈbandery n. Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1843 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 10 546 The gestes et faits of the heroes of Vraeschoot contrabandery. ˈcontrabanˌdism n. Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Aug. 11 Thanks to thee, thou bold, true son of Massachusetts, author of the new dictionary of contrabandism—Major-General Benjamin F. Butler. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). contrabandv.¹ Forms: Also 1600s counterband. Etymology: < contraband n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcontraband. †1. transitive. ‘To import goods prohibited’ (Johnson); to smuggle. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > trade in (goods) illegally or immorally [verb (transitive)] > smuggle contraband1615 smugglea1687 run1695 to run the cutter1870 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 87 Christian shippes..are there also searched for concealed Slaues, and goods contrabanded. 1666 London Gaz. No. 68/4 One Huzee..had liberty to Lade home with such Goods as were not Counterbanded. 1700 J. Dryden Fables Pref. sig. Aij Let them be stav'd or forfeited, like Counterbanded Goods. 1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum* Contraband, contrabanded goods. †2. To declare contraband, to prohibit. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > prohibition > prohibit [verb (transitive)] > proscribe or interdict to lay in forbodea1400 outlawc1400 suspend1488 interdict1502 inhibita1513 proscribe1622 contraband1678 ban1816 red-line1958 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. iii. 234 The Law severely contrabands, Our taking business, of Mens hands. 3. intransitive. To smuggle.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > trade illegally or immorally [verb (intransitive)] > trade in sordid or petty manner > smuggle smuggle1697 contraband1858 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. viii. iv. 325 Scoundrel, what do you want; contrabanding in these seas? Derivatives ˈcontrabanded adj. ΚΠ 1626 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) Contrabanded, uncustomed. 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