different between bannition vs bannimus

English

Etymology

From Latin bannitio. See banish.

Noun

bannition (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The act of expulsion.
   • March 6, 1640, William Laud, letter to A. Frewen

     You will take order, when he comes out of the castle, to send him out of the university too by bannition.

English

Etymology

Historically, from Medieval Latin bannimus (“we banish, we expel”), from bann?, band? (“denounce, ban, banish, proclaim, proscribe”, verb), influenced in meaning by bannum (“ordinance, ban”), from Frankish *bannjan (“to proclaim, order or prohibit under penalty”), from Proto-Germanic *bannijan? (“to curse, damn”), *bannan? (“to request”). Cognate with Old High German bannen (“to order under penalty, proscribe, cast a spell on”), ban (“order under penalty”). More at ban.

Noun

bannimus (uncountable)

1. A form of expulsion of any individual from the University of Oxford, by putting the proctorial edict up in some public place, as a denunciation or promulgation of it. It also served to prevent the individual from claiming the cause of expulsion.

Related terms

• bannition

References

• bannimus, in Cyclopædia, by Ephraim Chambers, 1680 (ca.)-1740.