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son or offenses. That time was, when to be a Protestant, to be a Christian, was by law as punishable as to be a traitor. Milton. -- Pun"ish*a*ble*ness, n.

Without penal restraint; not punishable. [R.] Swift.

Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capital punishment. Many crimes that are capital among us. Swift. To put to death a capital offender. Milton.

Capable or deserving of chastisement; punishable. Sherwood.

Deserving chastisement; punishable. [Obs.] He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. Howell.

] The tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall. Spenser. Capital crime, a crime punishable with death.

ot a crime before its passage, or which raises the grade of an offense, or renders an act punishable in a more severe manner that it was when committed. Ex post facto laws are held to be contrary to the fundamental principles of a free government, and the States are prohibited from passing such laws by the Constitution…

A heinous crime; especially, a crime punishable by death or imprisonment.

ective. Beddoes. Retroactive law or statute (Law), one which operates to make criminal or punishable, or in any way expressly to affect, acts done prior to the passing of the law.

ay make a present blaze. Waller. The making and selling of fireworks, and squibs . . . is punishable. Blackstone.