meaning of penal
1. Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence
2. Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code.
3. Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense.
4. Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement.
5. subject to punishment by law; "a penal
">offense"
Related Words
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