英:['pi:nəlɪ]
美:['pinəlɪ]
英:['pi:nəlɪ]
美:['pinəlɪ]
adjective
of, relating to, or involving punishment, penalties, or punitive institutions
liable to punishment
a penal offense
used as a place of confinement and punishment
a penal colony
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin poenalis, from poena punishment — more at pain >entry 1
The first known use of penal was in the 15th century
penmannoun
author sense 1
penaladjective
of or relating to punishment a penal colony
penal laws
1 A capital murder charge would allow prosecutors to seek the death penally, but Shawnee County prosecutor Michael Kagay didn’t respond to an email from The Associated Press asking about his plans.
2 The "numbering among the transgressors" is equally true of any one who suffers penally for his belief, or who, innocent or little to blame himself, shares the fate of an offending community.
3 Remorse is a damage, in which a man is penally mulcted; but this of mine was no more than a price, fairly and squarely agreed upon, which I was prepared to pay.
4 This right of academical citizenship continues five years, provided it be not voluntarily relinquished or penally forfeited.
5 Error in itself is not fatal to the inner sense of right; but Bruce’s error was not honest doubt, it was wilful self-deception, blindness of heart, first deliberately induced, then penally permitted.
6 His reign is retributive, and that not merely as penally recompensing evil, but as rewarding the faith and hope of those who waited for Him.
7 The penally, however, was not always a pecuniary one, for as late as the fifteenth century we have instances of artisans being condemned to death simply for having adulterated their articles of trade.
8 On one occasion he stopped to watch a Punch and Judy show, And heard, as Punch was being treated penally, That phantom curate laughing all hyaenally.
9 Yet when it befalls me to be more moved with the voice than the words sung, I confess to have sinned penally, and then had rather not hear music.
10 Australia was once a penal colony.
11 Loeb’s death sparked a statewide investigation of conditions in Illinois prisons, which lampooned every facet of the penal and parole system and preferential treatment for inmates — like Loeb — with unlimited funds.
12 This will highlight the penal green surrounds, while shorter rough gives opportunity for aggressive approach shots to the green.