Word Finder - punished

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To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action.

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If a prince violates the law, then he must be punished like an ordinary person.

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• castigate

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To treat harshly and unfairly.

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• mistreat

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To handle or beat severely; to maul.

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To consume a large quantity of.

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That has been the object of punishment.

I hope the father punished the naughty little boy.

If we're punished, it means that we have deserved it, it's not for us to judge.

Felipa will be punished for her part in the incident.

He had sinned against the Law; and at last God had punished him.

I'll tell you what I did to be punished, but it doesn't change anything.

I could not bear to see her punished.

She ignored his implication that women should be punished like children.

The system itself aims in principle at being thoroughly monistic; but, since matter, although created by God out of nothing, was regarded merely as the sphere in which souls are punished and purified, the system is pervaded by a strongly dualistic element.

Do you remember when I was punished once about some plums?

He eyed her clothing and spoke hesitantly, as if not certain whether he would be punished for his words.

It was among the twelve colonies that were punished for refusing help to Rome in 209 B.C. It was considered a suitable point to oppose a threatened march of Hasdrubal on Rome.

Kidnappers (plagiarii) were punished with death.

He punished the Frisii who refused to pay the tribute, and was on the point of advancing against the Chauci, but was recalled by the emperor and ordered to withdraw behind the Rhine.

As in earlier times, offenders were punished by expulsion.

He expected to be punished.

Maybe he feels like he is being punished.

To bring another into danger of death by false accusation was punished by death.

In 1841 Edward Moxon was found guilty of the publication of a blasphemous libel (Shelley's Queen Mab), the prosecution having been instituted by Henry Hetherington, who had previously been condemned to four months' imprisonment for a similar offence, and wished to test the law under which he was punished.

The proprietors could transport without trial their unruly serfs to Siberia or send them to the mines for life, and those who presented complaints against their masters were punished with the knout and condemned to the mines.

These Personal Liberty Laws forbade justices and judges to take cognizance of claims, extended the habeas corpus act and the privilege of jury trial to fugitives, and punished false testimony severely.

Murad thereupon returned to Europe with a large force, and sent Chendereli Zade Ali Pasha northwards; the fortresses of Shumla, Pravadi, Trnovo, Nicopolis and Silistria were taken by him; Sisman III., rebel king of Bulgaria, was punished and Bulgaria once more subjugated.

She was at first left undisturbed, but by degrees the château itself became taboo, and her visitors found themselves punished heavily.

All mortal sins shall be punished and extirpated by those whose office it is so to do.

But he taught that the state may interfere with legal or public duties only, and not with moral or private ones; He would not have even atheists punished, though they should be expelled the country, and he came forward as an earnest opponent of the prosecution of witches and of the use of torture.

The Highway Act of 1835 specified as offences for which the driver of a carriage on the public highway might be punished by a fine, in addition to any civil action that might be brought against him - riding upon the cart, or upon any horse drawing it, and not having some other person to guide it, unless there be some person driving it; negligence causing damage to person or goods being conveyed on the highway; quitting his cart, or leaving control of the horses, or leaving the cart so as to be an obstruction on the highway; not having the owner's name painted up; refusing to give the same; and not keeping on the left or near side of the road, when meeting any other carriage or horse.

They also punished those who had too large a share of the ager publicus, or kept too many cattle on the state pastures.

On the 1st of November Charles reached Florence, promising to respect its laws; but he permitted Corso Donati and his friends to attack the Bianchi, and the new podestd,Cante dei Gabrielli of Gubbio, who had come with Charles, punished many of that faction; among those whom he exiled was the poet Dante (1302).

Both these cities were secured by Moawiya in 660, and at the same time Yemen was punished for its adherence to 'All.

In 1884 they were punished, together with the Kakars, by the Zhob Valley Expedition.

Otto soon showed his intention of breaking with the policy of his father, who had been content with a nominal superiority over the duchies; in 937 he punished Eberhard, duke of Franconia, for an alleged infringement of the royal authority; and in 938 deposed Eberhard, who had recently become duke of Bavaria.

A pestilence drove Otto to Germany in 965, and finding the Romans again in arms on his return in 966, he allowed his soldiers to sack the city, and severely punished the leaders of the rebellion.

It was regarded not only as an error, but also as a crime to be detected and punished.

There was also the question whether any one should be punished simply for bearing the name of Christian or only if he was found guilty of "crimes associated with that name."

Whatever might be the real character of their profession, he held that such obstinate persistence ought to be punished.

The persons in question were not to be hunted out, but if they were reported and were found guilty, they were to be punished.

Blake, who offered to resign, complained of the conduct of many of them, and some were punished.

Yet every man felt and knew that no detail of military duty, however minute, escaped the emperor's eye, and that any relaxation of discipline would be punished rigorously, yet with unwavering justice.

The Romans punished massacre by massacre, and the complete suppression of the insurrection was long delayed, but the Jews made no great stand against disciplined troops.

Bribery may be punished by fine, imprisonment and disfranchisement for ten years.

If faith to him had not been broken he would have been sent back to Bohemia to be punished by his sovereign, the king of Bohemia.

Disobedience to or contempt of the ecclesiastical courts is to be punished by a new writ, de contumace capiendo, to follow on the certificate of the judge that the defender is contumacious and in contempt.

In 1833 a conspiracy of the Giovane Italia Society, organized by Mazzini, was discovered, and a number of its members punished with ruthless severity.

The conspiracies were repeatedly betrayed and the guilty parties terribly punished.

Its prestige was seriously undermined by the conduct of individual members, whose corrupt use of power was exposed and punished by Ephialtes, the democratic leader.

The Republican legislature had in 1867 appointed a committee to investigate the management of the canal system, but the abuses were allowed to continue until in 1875 Governor Tilden disclosed many frauds of the " Canal Ring," and punished the guilty.

Crime was rarely punished, and debts were not recoverable.

This third time he was not punished, but sent to sea, and turned out very well.

This disregard of responsibility was partly punished by the use his critics made of it when he became celebrated as a writer on education and a preacher of the domestic affections.'

He regained his ascendancy over the king, punished his enemies and forced Marie de' Medici and Gaston of Orleans to sue for pardon.

Whenever opinions did happen to be expressed which could be construed as criticism of Austria or Germany the offenders were speedily punished, and it was not long before the political leaders of the Czechs and Slovaks found themselves in confinement, some of them under sentence of death, while the Czech and Slovak press was subjected to a rigorous censorship and many of its organs prohibited from appearing.