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A writ in the nature of a summons to cause the party indicted on a penal statute to appear. Called also venire.
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v. t.
To make penal.
imp. & p. p.
of Penance
a.
Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense.
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Free from penance.
n.
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.
n.
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. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church.
a.
Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code.
n.
A fine imposed as a penalty for violation of the law.
adv.
In a penal manner.
a.
Penal.
n.
One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; -- namely, baptism, the Lord's Supper, and penance. See Sacrament.
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Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement.
n.
Avengement; penal retribution; vengeance.
n.
The quality or state of being penal; lability to punishment.
v. t.
To impose penance; to punish.
v. t.
To put a penalty on. See Penalty, 3.
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Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence
pl.
of Penalty
prep.
Denoting relation to some thing or person that is superior, weighs upon, oppresses, bows down, governs, directs, influences powerfully, or the like, in a relation of subjection, subordination, obligation, liability, or the like; as, to travel under a heavy load; to live under extreme oppression; to have fortitude under the evils of life; to have patience under pain, or under misfortunes; to behave like a Christian under reproaches and injuries; under the pains and penalties of the law; the condition under which one enters upon an office; under the necessity of obeying the laws; under vows of chastity.
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