- 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. 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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