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g, or loss inflicted on a person because of a crime or offense. I never gave them condign punishment. Shak. The rewards and punishments of another life. Locke.

is allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment. Halifax was absolved by a majority of fourteen. Macaulay.

or the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense.

To sum up; to put together mentally; as, to add numbers; to add up a column. Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. Milton. As easily as he can add together the ideas of two days or two years. Locke.

Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law. Nor is man too diminutive . . . to be amenable to the divine government. I. Taylor.

A pecuniary punishment or fine; a reparation or recantation. Amende honorable(#). (Old French Law) A species of infamous punishment in which the offender, being led into court with a rope about his neck, and a lighted torch in his hand, begged pardon of his God, the court, etc. In popular language, the phrase now denot…

Judicial cognizance of an offense; chastisement; punishment. [Archaic] "Divine animadversions." Wesley.

To take cognizance judicially; to inflict punishment. [Archaic] Grew.

r connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.; as, to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt.

One who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist.

ight be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offense against the public.

n with children, there will not be much need of the application of the common rewards and punishments. Locke.

l or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment. It was wholly arbitrary in them to do so. Jer. Taylor. Rank pretends to fix the value of every one, and is the most arbitrary of all things. Landor.

Repentant from fear of punishment; having attrition of grief for sin; -- opposed to contrite.

Grief for sin arising only from fear of punishment or feelings of shame. See Contrition. Wallis.

The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken. [R.] Milton.

" Macaulay. Have still found it necessary to back and fortify their laws with rewards and punishments. South. The mate backed the captain manfully. Blackw. Mag.

Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment with the rod.

To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight. [Obs.] He by the heels him hung upon a tree, And baffled so, that all which passed by The picture of his punishment might see. Spenser.

A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet.