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Retribution :: Retribution (n.) Specifically, reward and punishment, as distributed at the general judgment..

Blacklist :: Blacklist (v. t.) To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a..

Lynch Law :: Lynch law () The act or practice by private persons of inflicting punishment for crimes or offenses, without due process of law..

Animadversion :: Animadversion (n.) Judicial cognizance of an offense; chastisement; punishment.

Chastisable :: Chastisable (a.) Capable or deserving of chastisement; punishable.

Hell :: Hell (v. t.) The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death; the abode of evil spirits. Hence, any mental torment; anguish..

Lictor :: Lictor (n.) An officer who bore an ax and fasces or rods, as ensigns of his office. His duty was to attend the chief magistrates when they appeared in public, to clear the way, and cause due respect to be paid to them, also to apprehend and punish criminals..

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Of punishment, or sentence of punishment..

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..

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor..

Rebuke :: Rebuke (n.) A direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also, chastisement; punishment..

Trounce :: Trounce (v. t.) To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.

Vindicate :: Vindicate (v. t.) To avenge; to punish; as, a war to vindicate or punish infidelity..

Penal :: Penal (a.) Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code..

Sword :: Sword (n.) Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power..

Whip :: Whip (v. t.) To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy..

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

Cart :: Cart (v. t.) To expose in a cart by way of punishment.

Lynch :: Lynch (v. t.) To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See Lynch law..

Lick :: Lick (v. t.) To strike with repeated blows for punishment; to flog; to whip or conquer, as in a pugilistic encounter..

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