Abandun, Or Abandum

Abandun, or Abandum, anything sequestered, proscribed, or abandoned. Abandon, i.e., in bannum res missa, a thing banned or denounced as forfeited or lost, whence to abandon, desert, or forsake, as lost and gone, Cowel. Pasquier thinks it a coalition of a ban donner, to give up to a proscription, in which sense it signifies the band of the empire. Ban in the old dialect, signifies a curse; and co abandon, if considered as compounded of French and Saxon, is exactly equivalent to diris devovere. Consult Du Cange.