dampnen

Etymology
Borrowed from, from ; compare.

Verb

 * 1) to condemn, denounce, criticise
 * 2)  to charge as guilty; to effect punishment.
 * 3) to damn consign to hell
 * 4) to condemn to some ill fate, to doom or destine (to die, etc.)
 * 5) * late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Man of Law's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 843-844:
 * "enm"

- [...] Mankind was lorn and damned ay to dye, For which thy child was on a croys y-rent; [...]


 * 1)  to make illegal; to ban
 * 2)  to nullify