arch. Also 7 bain, (baen). [f. BANE sb.1]
† 1. trans. To kill: said esp. of poison. Obs.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, 426. Aconit that baneth, or killeth Panthers.
1589. Warner, Alb. Eng., V. xxv. (1612), 119. Poysned by a Monke, that baend himselfe, that Iohn might dye.
1596. Shaks., Merch. V., IV. i. 46. If my house be troubled with a Rat, And I … giue ten thousand Ducates To haue it bain’d?
2. To harm, hurt, injure, poison: a. physically.
1587. Turberv., Disprayse Wom. (R.). Hidden hookes … To bane thee when thou bite.
1615. Latham, Falconry (1633), 102. Surfeited in their bodies, and also baned in their liuers.
a. 1632. G. Herbert, Country Parson, v. (1652), 16 (T.). Now if a shepherd know not which grass will bane, or which not, how is he fit to be a shepherd?
1667. Phil. Trans., II. 526. The Smoak … will bane them.
1827. Keble, Chr. Year, 5th Sund. Easter. For what shall heal, when holy water banes?
b. morally or socially.
1601. Dent, Pathw. Heaven, 71. Couetousnesse … baneth our Gentlemen.
1643. Burroughes, Exp. Hosea, iv. (1652), 61. To be poison to them to have baned their soules.
