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Tumbril :: Tumbril (n.) A cucking stool for the punishment of scolds.

Socinianism :: Socinianism (n.) The tenets or doctrines of Faustus Socinus, an Italian theologian of the sixteenth century, who denied the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the personality of the Devil, the native and total depravity of man, the vicarious atonement, and the eternity of future punishment. His theory was, that Christ was a man divinely commissioned, who had no existence before he was conceived by the Virgin Mary; that human sin was the imitation of Adam's sin, and that human salvation was the imitat

Strappado :: Strappado (n.) A military punishment formerly practiced, which consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall to the length of the rope, by which means a limb was often dislocated..

Theftbote :: Theftbote (n.) The receiving of a man's goods again from a thief, or a compensation for them, by way of composition, with the intent that the thief shall escape punishment..

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..

Retribute :: Retribute (v. t.) To pay back; to give in return, as payment, reward, or punishment; to requite; as, to retribute one for his kindness; to retribute just punishment to a criminal..

Animadvert :: Animadvert (v. i.) To take cognizance judicially; to inflict punishment.

Mulct :: Mulct (v. t.) Hence, to deprive of; to withhold by way of punishment or discipline..

Graduate :: Graduate (n.) To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc..

Damnation :: Damnation (n.) A sin deserving of everlasting punishment.

Amenable :: Amenable (a.) Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law..

Reprobate :: Reprobate (a.) Abandoned to punishment; hence, morally abandoned and lost; given up to vice; depraved..

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..

Desert :: Desert (n.) That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit..

Penology :: Penology (n.) The science or art of punishment.

Pardon :: Pardon (v. t.) The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution..

Castigation :: Castigation (n.) Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism.

Scourge :: Scourge (n.) A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip..

Punishment :: Punishment (n.) Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person because of a crime or offense..

Amenable :: Amenable (a.) Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc..

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