a.; also 8–9 bannal. [a. F. banal, in Cotgr. bannal, f. ban:—med.L. bannum: see BAN sb.1, and -AL 1.]

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  1.  Of or belonging to compulsory feudal service.

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1753.  Chambers, 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.

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1864.  Sir F. Palgrave, Norm. & Eng., IV. 281. A bannal-oven of which the lord enjoyed the monopoly.

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  2.  (From the intermediate sense of, Open to the use of all the community): Commonplace, common, trite; trivial, petty.

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[1837.  Athenæum, No. 504. 453. These bannales personages are ‘much of a muchness.’]

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1864.  N. & Q., Ser. III. VI. 480. Facetious fools … set up the banal laugh.

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1868.  Browning, Ring & Bk., X. 820. You must show the warrant, just The banal scrap, clerk’s scribble.

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1883.  R. Burton & Cameron, Gold Coast, I. iii. 54. Prizes were banal as medals after a modern war.

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