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Reprobate :: Reprobate (a.) Abandoned to punishment; hence, morally abandoned and lost; given up to vice; depraved..

Punish :: Punish (v. t.) To injure, as by beating; to pommel..

Felony :: Felony (n.) An offense which occasions a total forfeiture either lands or goods, or both, at the common law, and to which capital or other punishment may be added, according to the degree of guilt..

Lick :: Lick (v. t.) To strike with repeated blows for punishment; to flog; to whip or conquer, as in a pugilistic encounter..

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..

Bastinado :: Bastinado (n.) A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet..

Commination :: Commination (n.) A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.

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

Punished :: Punished (imp. & p. p.) of Punis.

Vindicate :: Vindicate (v. t.) To avenge; to punish; as, a war to vindicate or punish infidelity..

Rope''s-end :: Rope's-end (v. t.) To punish with a rope's end.

Pillorize :: Pillorize (v. t.) To set in, or punish with, the pillory; to pillory..

Stock :: Stock (n.) A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment..

Blacklist :: Blacklist (v. t.) To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a..

Strappado :: Strappado (n.) A military punishment formerly practiced, which consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall to the length of the rope, by which means a limb was often dislocated..

Smite :: Smite (v. t.) To afflict; to chasten; to punish.

Decimation :: Decimation (n.) A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment..

Correct :: Correct (v. t.) To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying..

Stigmatic :: Stigmatic (n.) A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment.

Penology :: Penology (n.) The science or art of punishment.

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