单词 | banal |
释义 | banaladj. 1. Of or belonging to compulsory feudal service. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > [adjective] > relating to compulsory service banal1753 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Bannal-Mill, a kind of feudal service, whereby the tenants of a certain district are obliged to carry their corn to be ground at a certain mill, and to be baked at a certain oven for the benefit of the lord. 1864 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. IV. 281 A bannal-oven of which the lord enjoyed the monopoly. 2. (From the intermediate sense of, Open to the use of all the community): Commonplace, common, trite; trivial, petty. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or ordinary > commonplace quotidian1430 trite1548 beaten1587 trivial1589 threadbare1598 protrite1604 prose1606 commonplace1616 everyday1628 prostitute1631 prosaical1699 tritical1709 prosaic1729 tritish1779 hack1821 rum-ti-tum1832 unspecial1838 banal1840 commonplacish1847 prosy1849 inventionless1887 thread-worn1888 the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > trite or banal quotidian1430 trite1548 protrite1604 obvious1617 unbravea1681 prosaical1699 tritical1709 prosaic1729 hack1759 unstrikinga1774 commonplace1801 prosy1837 banal1840 mundane1850 unsensational1854 bromidic1906 corn-fed1929 corn-ball1970 1837 Athenæum No. 504. 453 These bannales personages are ‘much of a muchness.’] 1840 New Monthly Mag. 59 458 All that her late companions can draw from her is the banal declaration, that she ‘never knew what happiness was before’. 1864 Notes & Queries 3rd Ser. 6 480 Facetious fools..set up the banal laugh. 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. IV. x. 36 You must show the warrant, just The banal scrap, clerk's scribble. 1883 R. F. Burton & V. F. Cameron To Gold Coast I. iii. 54 Prizes were banal as medals after a modern war. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2020). > as lemmasbanal banal adj. and n. (a) adj. of or pertaining to a ban; (b) n. a Banate. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > [adjective] > army of feudal vassals banal1835 1835 Penny Cycl. III. 359/2 The Banal Frontier was formed in the course of the year 1696. < adj.1753 as lemmas |
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