| 单词 | penal |
| 释义 | penal (once / 1580 pages) adj Anything described as penal has something to do with legal punishment. Prisons are one important part of a country's penal system. Whenever you see the adjective penal, you'll know it has to do with court-ordered punishment. A government's penal code, for example, is a list of crimes and the punishments imposed for each of them. You might notice how similar penal is to the word penalty — in fact, they both stem from the same Latin word, poena, and the Greek root poine, both of which mean "punishment." WORD FAMILYpenal: penally USAGE EXAMPLESThe Indian Supreme Court employed this logic when it struck down the mandatory death sentence in the country’s penal code, in 1983. The New Yorker(Dec 31, 2016) However, other inmates questioned independently by human rights workers at the penal colony corroborated Mr. Dadin’s claims. Washington Times(Dec 25, 2016) "One writer uses language of violence which certainly brings him within penal laws," Gandhi stated. BBC(Dec 24, 2016) 1adj of or relating to punishment penal reform penal code 2adj subject to punishment by law a penal offense Syn punishable illegal prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules 3adj serving as or designed to impose punishment penal servitude Syn punitive, punitory inflicting punishment |
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