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banal, a.
(bəˈnɑːl, older ˈbeɪnəl)
Also 8–9 bannal.
[a. F. banal, in Cotgr. bannal, f. ban:—med.L. bannum: see ban n.1, and -al1.]
1. Of or belonging to compulsory feudal service.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., 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. 1864Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & 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.
[1837Athenæum No. 504. 453 These bannales personages are ‘much of a muchness.’] 1840New Monthly Mag. LIX. 458 All that her late companions can draw from her is the banal declaration, that she ‘never knew what happiness was before’. 1864N. & Q. Ser. iii. VI. 480 Facetious fools..set up the banal laugh. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. x. 820 You must show the warrant, just The banal scrap, clerk's scribble. 1883R. Burton & Cam. Gold Coast I. iii. 54 Prizes were banal as medals after a modern war. |