baneth

Verb

bane (third-person singular simple present banes, present participle baning, simple past and past participle baned)

1. (archaic, transitive) To physically injure (someone or something); to harm, to hurt.
   • Think when thou ſéeſt the baite whereon is thy delite, / That hidden Hookes are hard at hande to bane thee when thou bite.1567, George Turbervil[l]e, “Disprayse of Women that Allure and Loue Not”, in Epitaphes, Epigrams, Songs and Sonets, with a Discourse of the Friendly Affections of Tymetes to Pyndara His Ladie. […]...
2. (archaic, figuratively, transitive) To cause (someone) misery or ruin; to socially or spiritually injure (someone).
   • It [covetousness] annoyeth our Phiſitions, it infecteth our Diuines, it choaketh our Lawiers, it woundeth our Farmers, it baneth our Gentlemen, it murdereth our Tradeſmen, it bewitcheth our Merchants, it ſtingeth our Marriners. Oh couetouſneſſe, couetouſneſſe: it is the poyſon of all things, the...1601, Arthur Dent, The Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen. […], London: […] Robert Dexter, […], →OCLC, page 80
3. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To cause (sheep) a disease, especially the rot (“a disease in which breakdown of tissue occurs”).
4. (obsolete, transitive) To kill (a person or animal), especially by poison.
   • Aconit is of two ſortes (as Dioſcorides writeth) the one is named Aconitum Pardalianches, that is to ſay, Aconite that baneth, or killeth Panthers.1578, Rembert Dodoens, “Of Aconitum”, in Henry Lyte, transl., A Niewe Herball, or Historie of Plantes: […], London: […] [Henry [i.e., Hendrik van der] Loë for] Gerard Dewes, […], →OCLC, 3rd part...

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