Definition of penalty

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Penalty (n.) A handicap.

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Suffer :: Suffer (v. i.) To undergo punishment; specifically, to undergo the penalty of death..
Tender :: Tender (n.) An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest..
Redeem :: Redeem (v. t.) To pay the penalty of; to make amends for; to serve as an equivalent or offset for; to atone for; to compensate; as, to redeem an error..
Penalty :: Penalty (n.) A handicap.
Inflict :: Inflict (v. t.) To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to inflict blows; to inflict a wound with a dagger; to inflict severe pain by ingratitude; to inflict punishment on an offender; to inflict the penalty of death on a criminal..
Whipper :: Whipper (n.) One who whips; especially, an officer who inflicts the penalty of legal whipping..
Quit :: Quit (v.) Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted..
Annex :: Annex (v. t.) To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.; as, to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt..
Mulct :: Mulct (n.) A fine or penalty, esp. a pecuniary punishment or penalty..
Forfeiture :: Forfeiture (n.) That which is forfeited; a penalty; a fine or mulct.
Pain :: Pain (n.) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
Save :: Save (a.) Specifically, to deliver from sin and its penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life..
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..
Punishment :: Punishment (n.) A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention..
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..
Subpolar :: Subpoenal (a.) Required or done under penalty.
Doomage :: Doomage (n.) A penalty or fine for neglect.
Penalize :: Penalize (v. t.) To put a penalty on. See Penalty, 3..
Pardon :: Pardon (v. t.) To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; -- applied to the offender.
Beast :: Beast (n.) A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc..
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