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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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n.
Avengement; penal retribution; vengeance.
a.
Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense.
n.
One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; -- namely, baptism, the Lord's Supper, and penance. See Sacrament.
a.
Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code.
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.
a.
Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence
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of Penance
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.
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of Penalty
n.
The quality or state of being penal; lability to punishment.
a.
Penal.
adv.
In a penal manner.
a.
Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement.
n.
A fine imposed as a penalty for violation of the law.
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.
a.
Free from penance.
v. t.
To put a penalty on. See Penalty, 3.
v. t.
To impose penance; to punish.
v. t.
To make penal.
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