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Operative :: Operative (a.) Producing the appropriate or designed effect; efficacious; as, an operative dose, rule, or penalty..

Commutation :: Commutation (n.) The change of a penalty or punishment by the pardoning power of the State; as, the commutation of a sentence of death to banishment or imprisonment..

Amerce :: Amerce (v. t.) To punish by a pecuniary penalty, the amount of which is not fixed by law, but left to the discretion of the court; as, the amerced the criminal in the sum on the hundred dollars..

Forgive :: Forgive (v. t.) To give up resentment or claim to requital on account of (an offense or wrong); to remit the penalty of; to pardon; -- said in reference to the act forgiven.

Penalize :: Penalize (v. t.) To put a penalty on. See Penalty, 3..

Obligation :: Obligation (n.) A bond with a condition annexed, and a penalty for nonfulfillment. In a larger sense, it is an acknowledgment of a duty to pay a certain sum or do a certain things..

Centesimation :: Centesimation (n.) The infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every hundred, as in cases of mutiny..

Danger :: Danger (n.) Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty.

Whipper :: Whipper (n.) One who whips; especially, an officer who inflicts the penalty of legal whipping..

Beast :: Beast (n.) A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc..

Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life..

Suffer :: Suffer (v. i.) To undergo punishment; specifically, to undergo the penalty of death..

Quit :: Quit (a.) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit..

Ban :: Ban (n.) A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes..

Condemn :: Condemn (v. t.) To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty..

Immunity :: Immunity (a.) Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy..

Praemunire :: Praemunire (n.) The penalty ascribed for the offense of praemunire.

Penalty :: Penalty (n.) The suffering, or the sum to be forfeited, to which a person subjects himself by covenant or agreement, in case of nonfulfillment of stipulations; forfeiture; fine..

Execution :: Execution (n.) A putting to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully inflicted; as, the execution of a murderer..

Quit :: Quit (v.) Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted..

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