- 1. a. Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence Source: opted
- 2. a. Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code. Source: opted
- 3. a. Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense. Source: opted
- 4. a. Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement. Source: opted
- 5. adj. of or relating to punishment Source: wordnet
- 6. adj. serving as or designed to impose punishment Source: wordnet
- 7. adj. (of an act or offense) subject to punishment by law Source: wordnet
- 8. 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 penalact of offense. (c) Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement. "Adamantine chains and penal fire." Milton. Penal code (Law), a code of laws concerning crimes and offenses and their punishment. -- Penal laws, Penal statutes (Law), laws prohibited 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. Source: webster
- 9. Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes andoffenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence: as:(a) Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penalcode.(b) Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact ofoffense.(c) Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, apenal colony or settlement. "Adamantine chains and penal fire."Milton. Penal code (Law), a code of laws concerning crimes andoffenses and their punishment.-- Penal laws, Penal statutes (Law), laws prohibited certain acts,and imposing penalties for committing them.-- Penal servitude, imprisonment with hard labor, in a prison, inlieu of transportation. [Great Brit.] -- Penal suit, Penal action(Law), a suit for penalties. Source: adambom
- 10. j:100 a. of or relating to punishment s. serving as or designed to impose punishment s. subject to punishment by law Source: ecdict
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