Thesaurus: penal
Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence
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Definitions
- a. Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence
- a. Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code.
- a. Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense.
- a. Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement.
- adj. of or relating to punishment
- adj. serving as or designed to impose punishment
- adj. (of an act or offense) subject to punishment by law
- j:100 a. of or relating to punishment s. serving as or designed to impose punishment s. subject to punishment by law