About The Word Penal
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Penal
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What's The Definition Of Penal?
[adj] subject to punishment by law; "a penal offense"
[adj] serving as or designed to impose punishment; "penal servitude"; "a penal colony" [adj] of or relating to punishment; "penal reform"; "penal code" Synonyms | Synonyms for Penal: illegal | punishable | punitive | punitory Related Terms | Find terms related to Penal: See Also | Penal In Webster's Dictionary \Pe"nal\, a. [L. poenalis, fr. poena punishment: cf. F.
p['e]nal. See {Pain}.]
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.
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