correction, castigation.
discipline, infliction, trial; judgment; penalty &c 974;
retribution; thunderbolt, Nemesis; requital &c (reward) 973; penology;
retributive justice.
lash, scaffold &c (instrument of punishment) 975; imprisonment &c
(restraint) 751; transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile,
involuntary exile, ostracism; penal servitude, hard labor; galleys &c
975; beating &c v.; flagellation, fustigation†, gantlet, strappado†,
estrapade†, bastinado, argumentum baculinum [Lat.], stick law, rap on
the knuckles, box on the ear; blow &c (impulse) 276; stripe, cuff,
kick, buffet, pummel; slap, slap in the face; wipe, douse; coup de
grace; torture, rack; picket, picketing; dragonnade†.
capital punishment; execution; lethal injection; the gas chamber;
hanging &c v.; electrocution, rail-riding, scarpines†; decapitation,
decollation†; garrotte, garrotto [It]; crucifixion, impalement; firing
squad; martyrdom; auto-da-fe [Fr.]; noyade†; happy dispatch.
[suicide as punishment] hara-kiri, seppuku [Jap.]; drinking the
hemlock.
V. punish; chastise, chasten; castigate, correct, inflict punishment,
administer correction, deal retributive justice; cowhide, lambaste
[Slang].
visit upon, pay; pay out, serve out; do for; make short work of,
give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of; have a rod in
pickle for; give it one.
strike &c 276; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap,
slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat,
lay on, swinge†, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce,
sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down,
give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund†, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash,
lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the
stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with
an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate†, pitch into,
lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly;
give a black eye.
tar and feather; pelt, stone, lapidate†; masthead, keelhaul.
execute; bring to the block, bring to the gallows; behead,
decapitate, guillotine; decollate; hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring,
hang draw and quarter; shoot; decimate; burn; break on the wheel,
crucify; empale†, impale; flay; lynch; electrocute; gas, send to the gas
chamber.
torture; put on, put to the rack; picket.
banish, exile, transport, expel, ostracize; rusticate; drum out;
dismiss, disbar, disbench†; strike off the roll, unfrock; post.
suffer, suffer for, suffer punishment; be flogged.
be executed, suffer the ultimate penalty; be hanged &c; come to
the gallows, mount the gallows, swing [Coll.], twist in the wind, dance
upon nothing, die in one's shoes; be rightly served; be electrocuted,
fry [Coll.], ride the lightning [Coll.]; face the firing squad.
Adj. punishing &c v.; penal; punitory†, punitive; inflictive,
castigatory; punished &c v..
Int. a la lanterne! [Fr.],
Phr. culpan paena premit comes [Lat.] [Horace]; eating the bitter bread
of banishment [Richard II]; gravis ira regum est semper [Lat.]
[Seneca]; sera tamen tacitis paena venit pedibus [Lat.] [Tibullus]; suo
sibi gladio hunc jugulo [Lat.] [Terence].