Penal

Penal - Other Definitions

• (a.) Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence
  
  
• (a.) Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code.
  
  
• (a.) Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense.
  
  
• (a.) Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement.
  
  
• (adv.) In a penal manner.