ABSP - Law: Punishments

Law: Punishments

aby	to pay as a penalty > ABYS, ABYING, ABOUGHT. (ABIES exists as a fir tree).
abye	to pay the penalty for > ABYES, ABYING, ABOUGHT (not ABYED*).
amearst	see AMERCE.
amende	a fine or reparation paid.
amerce	to punish by a fine whose amount is fixed by the court; broadly, to punish > AMERCES, AMERCING, AMERCED or (Spenser) AMEARST. [L. merces, wages]
amerceable amerciable	liable to be amerced.
amercement amerciament	the infliction of a fine.
amercer	one who AMERCES, fines, punishes.
amerciament	see AMERCEMENT.
attainder	the loss of civil rights, formerly a result of outlawry or a death sentence.
baculine	pertaining to the stick or cane; pertaining to flogging.
banish	to expel, exile.
bastinade bastinado	to punish by beating on the soles of the feet.
behead	to cut off the head of.
beheadal	the act of beheading.
bootikin	(Scots) a kind of boot used for torture.
bowstring	the string of a bow; (verb) to strangle with a bowstring > BOWSTRINGS, BOWSTRINGING, BOWSTRINGED or BOWSTRUNG.
cang cangue	a wooden collar used to punish criminals in China.
catasta	a scaffold or stage for torture or selling slaves.
commutation	the act of commuting.
commute	to change a sentence (esp. the death sentence) for a less severe punishment.
convictism	the policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements.
cowhide	to punish by whipping with a cowhide.
crucifier	one who crucifies.
crucifixion	execution by crucifying.
crucify	to put to death on a cross.
custodial	of or like custody e.g. a custodial sentence.
darbies	handcuffs. [From the rigid terms of a 16th century English usurer of that name]. N.B. no DARBY*.
decapitate	to cut off the head of.
decimate	to punish a group by killing every tenth person.
decimation	the act of decimating.
decimator	one who decimates.
decollate	to behead.
draconian draconic	of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him.
draconism	being DRACONIC in the administration of laws.
duress duresse	hardship; constraint; restraint of liberty.
electrocute	to execute (a criminal) by electricity.
electrocution	execution by electricity.
eriach eric	, erick a blood-fine paid by a murderer in old Irish law.
execute	to put to death esp. judicially.
execution	the act of executing.
exile	to banish from one's own country.
exilic	relating to EXILE.
feague	to beat, whip.
finable fineable	liable or subject to a fine; as, a finable person or offense.
fineableness	the state of being FINEABLE.
flagellate	to whip; to scourge.
flay	to strip off the skin from.
flog	to whip.
floggable	of an offence, punishable by flogging.
forcipation	torture by pinching with forceps.
forfeit	a penalty for a crime, or failure to fulfil some condition; (verb) to lose as a penalty.
forfeitable	that can be forfeited.
forfeiture	the act of forfeiting.
fusillation	death by shooting.
gallows	a wooden frame for hanging criminals > GALLOWSES.
gallus	(Scots) deserving of the gallows; (in the pl. GALLUSES) trouser braces.
ganch gaunch	an impaling apparatus; (verb, obs.) to execute by impaling on stakes or hooks.
gating	punishment by gating, keeping in.
gaunch	see GANCH.
gibbet	a gallows; (verb) to hang on a gibbet > GIBBETS, GIBBETING or GIBBETTING, GIBBETED or GIBBETTED.
guillotine	an instrument for beheading consisting of a weighted blade allowed to drop between two tall grooved uprights; (verb) to behead with a guillotine.
impale	to pierce with a pointed object esp. as a form of execution.
impalement	the act of impaling.
jambok sjambok	a rhinoceros-hide whip; (verb) to beat with this.
jankers	a military punishment of detention etc. for defaulters. [JANKER exists as a long pole for transporting logs].
jougs	(Scots) an old instrument of punishment consisting of a hinged iron collar locked round an offender's neck and attached by a chain to a wall or post. N.B. no JOUG*.
keelhale keelhaul	to punish by dragging under the keel of a ship.
knout	to flog; to scourge.
kourbash kurbash	a kind of whip; (verb) to whip with a kurbash.
lapidate	to stone to death.
lapidation	the act of stoning.
noyade	drowning, especially of many persons together as form of execution.
nub	a knob; (verb, obs.) to hang.
ostracise	to practise OSTRACISM.
ostracism	banishment by popular vote, -- a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage.
outlawry	the act of putting someone outside the protection of the law.
patibulary	of or pertaining to the gallows.
penal	pertaining to punishment > PENALLY.
penality	the state of being penal; liability to punishment.
penological	relating to PENOLOGY, the study of crime and punishment.
penology poenology	the study of crime and punishment.
petalism	a method of ostracism practised in ancient Syracuse, the name being written on an olive leaf.
pilliwinks pilniewinks pinniewinkle pinnywinkle	an instrument of torture designed to crush fingers.
pillorise pillorize	to pillory.
pillory	a wooden frame with holes for head and hands used as punishment; (verb) to put in a pillory.
pilniewinks	see PILLIWINKS.
pinnywinkle	see PILLIWINKS.
pizzle	a bull's penis used as instrument of punishment by flogging.
poenology	see PENOLOGY.
postexilic	relating to the period after an EXILE, esp. of the Jews.
prexilic	relating to the period before an EXILE, esp. of the Jews.
punish	to impose a penalty on in requital for wrongdoing.
punishable	worthy of punishment.
punition	punishment.
punitory	punishing; tending to punishment; punitive.
rack	an instrument for stretching, esp an instrument of torture; (verb) to stretch on the rack.
rustication	the action of banishing, or the state of being banished, into the country.
scarpines	an instrument of torture for the feet. N.B. no SCARPINE*.
scourge	to punish severely esp. with a whip.
sjambok	see JAMBOK.
stockpunisht	(Shakesp.) punished by being put in the stocks.
stocks	a device for holding delinquents by the ankles, and often the wrists.
stonable	carrying the penalty of being stoned, i.e. pelted with stones.
strappado	a form of torture in which victim is left dangling from a rope; (verb) to torture by this > STRAPPADOS or STRAPPADOES, STRAPPADOING, STRAPPADOED.
suspercollate	to hang by the neck. [From the abbreviation of suspendatur per collum (sus. per coll.), 'let him be hanged by the neck', in the entry of a capital sentence in a jailer's books].
sweatbox	a narrow box or cell in which a prisoner is placed for punishment.
talion	(Lat.) a punishment identical to the crime e.g. death sentence for murder.
talionic	pertaining to revenge in kind.
thumbkin	an instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.
thumbscrew	an instrument of torture for compressing the thumb by a screw.
toco toko	punishment.
treadmill treadwheel	a machine with a continuously moving surface of adjustable speed used for exercising on by running or walking; used as a punishment in jails and also available in the more expensive gyms.
tumbrel tumbril	a vehicle carrying condemned persons to a place of execution.
unamerced	not subject to a fine.
vapulate	to flog; to be flogged.
weregild wergeld	, wergelt, wergild (OE) money paid by a killer's family to the family of the victim to prevent a blood feud; the cash value of a man's life.

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