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单词 banal
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banaladj.

/bəˈnɑːl/older/ˈbeɪnəl/
Forms: Also 1700s–1800s bannal.
Etymology: < French banal, in Cotgrave bannal , < ban < medieval Latin bannum : see ban n.1, and -al suffix1.
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).

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banal
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.
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adj.1753
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