PENAL
\pˈiːnə͡l], \pˈiːnəl], \p_ˈiː_n_əl]\
Definitions of PENAL
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence
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Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense.
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Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement.
By Oddity Software
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Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence
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Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense.
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Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Pertaining to punishment: incurring or denouncing punishment: used for punishment.
By Daniel Lyons
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Incurring, or prescribing, punishment.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Pertaining to punishment; liable to punishment.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Enacting, inflicting or incurring punishment for crime.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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That punishes; that incurs or inflicts punishment; used as a place of punishment.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
