| Pernancy | n. [ OF. prenance, fr. prendre, prenre, penre, to take, L. prendere, prehendere. ] (Law) A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind, the receiving of profits. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Penal | a. [ L. poenalis, fr. poena punishment: cf. F. pénal. See Pain. ] Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence: as: (a) Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code. (b) Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penal act or offense. (c) Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement. “Adamantine chains and penal fire.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Penal code (Law), a code of laws concerning crimes and offenses and their punishment. --
Penal laws,
Penal statutes (Law), laws prohibiting certain acts, and imposing penalties for committing them. --
Penal servitude, imprisonment with hard labor, in a prison, in lieu of transportation. [ Great Brit. ] --
Penal suit,
Penal action (Law), a suit for penalties. [ 1913 Webster ]
| | Penality | n. [ Cf. LL. poenalitas. See Penalty. ] The quality or state of being penal; liability to punishment. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ] | | penalization | n. The act of punishing.
Syn. -- punishment, penalty. [ WordNet 1.5 ] | | Penalize | v. t. 1. To make penal. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. (Sport.) To put a penalty on. See Penalty, 3. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ] | | penalized | adj. Subjected to a penalty. [ Narrower terms: fined, mulcted ] [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ] | | Penally | adv. In a penal manner. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Penalty | n.; pl. Penalties [ F. pénalité. See Penal. ] 1. Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass. [ 1913 Webster ] Death is the penalty imposed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. The suffering, or the sum to be forfeited, to which a person subjects himself by covenant or agreement, in case of nonfulfillment of stipulations; forfeiture; fine. [ 1913 Webster ] The penalty and forfeit of my bond. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. A handicap. [ Sporting Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ The term penalty is in law mostly applied to a pecuniary punishment. [ 1913 Webster ]
Bill of pains and penalties. See under Bill. --
On penalty of, or
Under penalty of, on pain of; with exposure to the penalty of, in case of transgression. [ 1913 Webster ]
| | Penance | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Penanced ] To impose penance; to punish. “Some penanced lady elf.” Keats. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Penance | n. [ OF. penance, peneance, L. paenitentia repentance. See Penitence. ] 1. Repentance. [ Obs. ] Wyclif (Luke xv. 7). [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Pain; sorrow; suffering. [ Obs. ] “Joy or penance he feeleth none.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. (Eccl.) A means of repairing a sin committed, and obtaining pardon for it, consisting partly in the performance of expiatory rites, partly in voluntary submission to a punishment corresponding to the transgression, imposed by a confessor or other ecclesiastical authority. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ] And bitter penance, with an iron whip. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ] Quoth he, “The man hath penance done,
And penance more will do.” Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. Hence: Any act performed by a person to atone for an offense to another; an act of atonement. [ Colloq. ] [ PJC ] | | Penanceless | a. Free from penance. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
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| penal | (adj) of or relating to punishment, Example: penal reform; penal code | | penal | (adj) serving as or designed to impose punishment, Example: penal servitude | | penal | (adj) subject to punishment by law, Syn. punishable, Example: a penal offense | | penal code | (n) the legal code governing crimes and their punishment | | penal colony | (n) a penal institution where prisoners are exiled (often located on an island from which escape is difficult or impossible) | | penal institution | (n) an institution where persons are confined for punishment and to protect the public, Syn. penal facility | | penalty | (n) a payment required for not fulfilling a contract | | penalty | (n) the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition, Ant. reward, Example: neglected his health and paid the penalty | | penalty | (n) (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game | | penalty box | (n) (ice hockey) an enclosed bench to the side of an ice-hockey rink for players who are serving time penalties |
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