▪ I. † ˈbandon, -oun, n. Obs.
Forms: 3 bandun, baundune, 3–5 bandom, 3–7 bandon, 4 baundoun, 4–5 baundon, 4–6 bandoun(e, 5 bandum, 5–6 bandone.
[a. OF. bandon, bandun, ‘public proclamation, ban, jurisdiction, authority, disposal, discretion, license’ = Pr. bandon, f. (through a deriv. form *bando -ōnem) late L. band-um = bann-um ‘public proclamation, edict, interdict,’ ad. Teut. bann: see ban n.1 There was a confusion in Romanic between bannum and bandum: Du Cange shows bannum for bandum, banner, as well as bandum for bannum ‘edict’; cf. banish, bandit, banner, banderole. (There is no etymological connexion in Teutonic between bann, bann-an, and bandwa token, bandwjan to signify.)]
Jurisdiction, authority, dominion, control; power of disposal, full discretion, or authority to deal with. to be in or at any one's bandon: to be under his control, at his disposal, will, or pleasure. To have a thing in one's bandon: at one's full or free disposal.
| c 1230 Ancr. R. 338 Þe terme is ine Godes honden: and nout i þine baundune [earlier MS. bandun]. a 1300 Cursor M. 9013 Þe man sco has in hir bandom. c 1300 K. Alis. 3180 The emperour, and his barouns, Yeildith heom to thy baundouns. c 1470 Henry Wallace xi. 1376, I thocht haiff maid Ingland at his bandoun. 1483 Caxton G. de la Tour E vij, The kyng..gafe hym baundon ouer all the goodes. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 181 Wnder his bandoun think I neuir to be. 1611 Cotgr., Abandon, bandon..full libertie for others to use a thing. |
Hence the F. and ME. phr. a bando(u)n, in control, at one's disposal; also, at one's own free will, freely, unrestrainedly; whence the vb. abandonn-er = mettre à bandon: see abandon.
▪ II. † ˈbandon, v.1 Obs.
[aphetic f. abandon v.]
1. To have under control, subdue; = abandon v. 1.
| c 1450 Henryson Mor. Fab. 80 For all the beastes before that bandoned beene Will shute vpon my beastes with yre. |
2. refl. To give oneself up; = abandon v. 4.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 14906 He wil him bandun [v.r. baundoun] nu þar-till [to death] Ful freli wit his aun wil. |
3. To forsake; = abandon v. 8.
| 1587 Turberv. Trag. T. (1837) 53 Forgo thy solenne walks, bandon Classic wood. |
4. To banish; = abandon v. 11.
| 1592 W. Wyrley Armorie 108 Thoughts, griefes, sad cares, are bandon[ed] then away. |
▪ III. † ˈbandon, v.2 Obs. rare—1.
[? for banden; cf. band n.2 10 b, bandy a. 1.]
Of cloth: To shrink unevenly, so that tight inelastic ‘bands’ occur here and there across the piece.
| 1552 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI, 6 §1 (Ruffhead) When the clothes so made, be put in the water to try them, they rise out..in some place narrower than some, beside such cockeling, bandoning, and divers..notable Faults. |