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Punish :: Punish (v. t.) To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience..

Punished :: Punished (imp. & p. p.) of Punis.

Boating :: Boating (n.) In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish..

Requite :: Requite (v. t.) To repay; in a good sense, to recompense; to return (an equivalent) in good; to reward; in a bad sense, to retaliate; to return (evil) for evil; to punish..

Amende :: Amende (n.) A pecuniary punishment or fine; a reparation or recantation.

Pillorize :: Pillorize (v. t.) To set in, or punish with, the pillory; to pillory..

Ferule :: Ferule (v. t.) To punish with a ferule.

Annihilationist :: Annihilationist (n.) One who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist.

Pandora :: Pandora (n.) A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it..

Taws :: Taws (n.) A leather lash, or other instrument of punishment, used by a schoolmaster..

Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To punish by blows; to thrash.

Punish :: Punish (v. t.) To injure, as by beating; to pommel..

Bastinado :: Bastinado (n.) 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..

Damn :: Damn (v. t.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.

Baffle :: Baffle (v. t.) To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight..

Beating :: Beating (n.) The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.

Tyrant :: Tyrant (n.) Specifically, a monarch, or other ruler or master, who uses power to oppress his subjects; a person who exercises unlawful authority, or lawful authority in an unlawful manner; one who by taxation, injustice, or cruel punishment, or the demand of unreasonable services, imposes burdens and hardships on those under his control, which law and humanity do not authorize, or which the purposes of government do not require; a cruel master; an oppressor..

Baculine :: Baculine (a.) Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment with the rod.

Fine :: Fine (n.) To impose a pecuniary penalty upon for an offense or breach of law; to set a fine on by judgment of a court; to punish by fine; to mulct; as, the trespassers were fined ten dollars..

Castigate :: Castigate (v. t.) To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely..

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