Definition of penal

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Penal (a.) Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code..

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Reckon :: Reckon (v. i.) To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
Centesimation :: Centesimation (n.) The infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every hundred, as in cases of mutiny..
Beast :: Beast (n.) A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc..
Doom :: Doom (v. t.) Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.
Pain :: Pain (n.) Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty..
Pardonable :: Pardonable (a.) Admitting of pardon; not requiring the excution of penalty; venial; excusable; -- applied to the offense or to the offender; as, a pardonable fault, or culprit..
Pardon :: Pardon (v. t.) The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution..
Doom :: Doom (v. t.) That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty..
Re-demption :: Re-demption (n.) The procuring of God's favor by the sufferings and death of Christ; the ransom or deliverance of sinners from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.
Severity :: Severity (n.) Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor; harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of discipline or government; severity of penalties..
Penalty :: Penalty (n.) A handicap.
Tormentor :: Tormentor (n.) One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures..
Penary :: Penary (a.) Penal.
Subpoenaed :: Subpoena (n.) A writ commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty; the process by which a defendant in equity is commanded to appear and answer the plaintiff's bill..
Guilty :: Guilty (superl.) Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent; wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something censurable; justly exposed to penalty; -- used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment..
Doom :: Doom (v. t.) To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine..
Release :: Release (n.) To relieve from something that confines, burdens, or oppresses, as from pain, trouble, obligation, penalty..
Amerce :: Amerce (v. t.) To punish by a pecuniary penalty, the amount of which is not fixed by law, but left to the discretion of the court; as, the amerced the criminal in the sum on the hundred dollars..
Indemnity :: Indemnity (n.) Security; insurance; exemption from loss or damage, past or to come; immunity from penalty, or the punishment of past offenses; amnesty..
Redeem :: Redeem (v. t.) Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law..
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