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Graduate :: Graduate (n.) To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc..

Discipline :: Discipline (n.) Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc..

Capitally :: Capitally (adv.) In a way involving the forfeiture of the head or life; as, to punish capitally..

Infliction :: Infliction (n.) The act of inflicting or imposing; as, the infliction of torment, or of punishment..

Sentence :: Sentence (v. t.) To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.

Favor :: Favor (n.) Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.

Damnably :: Damnably (adv.) In a manner to incur severe censure, condemnation, or punishment..

Mulct :: Mulct (v. t.) Hence, to deprive of; to withhold by way of punishment or discipline..

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..

Damnation :: Damnation (n.) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself..

Scourger :: Scourger (n.) One who scourges or punishes; one who afflicts severely.

Penal :: Penal (a.) Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement..

Chastisement :: Chastisement (n.) The act of chastising; pain inflicted for punishment and correction; discipline; punishment.

Tyrant :: Tyrant (n.) Specifically, a monarch, or other ruler or master, who uses power to oppress his subjects; a person who exercises unlawful authority, or lawful authority in an unlawful manner; one who by taxation, injustice, or cruel punishment, or the demand of unreasonable services, imposes burdens and hardships on those under his control, which law and humanity do not authorize, or which the purposes of government do not require; a cruel master; an oppressor..

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..

Requite :: Requite (v. t.) To repay; in a good sense, to recompense; to return (an equivalent) in good; to reward; in a bad sense, to retaliate; to return (evil) for evil; to punish..

Discipline :: Discipline (n.) Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.

Fustigation :: Fustigation (n.) A punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling.

Masthead :: Masthead (v. t.) To cause to go to the masthead as a punishment.

Judgment :: "Judgment (v. i.) A calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment..

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