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Admonishment
Admonishment Ad*mon"ish*ment (-ment), n. [Cf. OF.
amonestement, admonestement.]
Admonition. [R.] --Shak.
Banishment
Banishment Ban"ish*ment, n. [Cf. F. bannissement.]
The act of banishing, or the state of being banished.
He secured himself by the banishment of his enemies.
--Johnson.
Round the wide world in banishment we roam. --Dryden.
Syn: Expatriation; ostracism; expulsion; proscription; exile;
outlawry.
Canonical punishmentsCanonic Ca*non"ic, Cannonical Can*non"ic*al, a. [L.
cannonicus, LL. canonicalis, fr. L. canon: cf. F. canonique.
See canon.]
Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to
a, canon or canons. ``The oath of canonical obedience.'
--Hallam.
Canonical books, or Canonical Scriptures, those books
which are declared by the canons of the church to be of
divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The
Roman Catholic Church holds as canonical several books
which Protestants reject as apocryphal.
Canonical epistles, an appellation given to the epistles
called also general or catholic. See Catholic epistles,
under Canholic.
Canonical form (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical
form to which all functions of the same class can be
reduced without lose of generality.
Canonical hours, certain stated times of the day, fixed by
ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of
prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the
Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In
England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m.
to 3 p. m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after
which marriage can not be legally performed in any parish
church.
Canonical letters, letters of several kinds, formerly given
by a bishop to traveling clergymen or laymen, to show that
they were entitled to receive the communion, and to
distinguish them from heretics.
Canonical life, the method or rule of living prescribed by
the ancient clergy who lived in community; a course of
living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid than the
monastic, and more restrained that the secular.
Canonical obedience, submission to the canons of a church,
especially the submission of the inferior clergy to their
bishops, and of other religious orders to their superiors.
Canonical punishments, such as the church may inflict, as
excommunication, degradation, penance, etc.
Canonical sins (Anc. Church.), those for which capital
punishment or public penance decreed by the canon was
inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy. Corporal punishmentCorporal Cor"po*ral, a. [L. corporalis, fr. corpus body. See
Corpse.]
1. Belonging or relating to the body; bodily. ``Past corporal
toil.' --Shak.
Pillories and other corporal infections. --Milton.
Corporal punishment (law), punishment applied to the body
of the offender, including the death penalty, whipping,
and imprisonment.
2. Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In
this sense now usually written corporeal. --Milton.
A corporal heaven . . . .where the stare are.
--Latimer.
What seemed corporal melted As breath into the wind.
--Shak.
Syn: Corporal, Bodily, Corporeal.
Usage: Bodily is opposed to mental; as, bodily affections.
Corporeal refers to the whole physical structure or
nature, of the body; as, corporeal substance or frame.
Corporal, as now used, refers more to punishment or
some infliction; as, corporal punishment. To speak of
corporeal punishment is an error. Bodily austerities;
the corporeal mold. Degarnishment
Degarnishment De*gar"nish*ment, n.
The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a
garrison. [R.]
Diminishment
Diminishment Di*min"ish*ment, n.
Diminution. [R.] --Cheke.
Disfurnishment
Disfurnishment Dis*fur"nish*ment, n.
The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished.
--Daniel.
Evanishment
Evanishment E*van"ish*ment, n.
A vanishing; disappearance. [R.] --T. Jefferson.
Furnishment
Furnishment Fur"nish*ment, n.
The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also,
furniture. [Obs.] --Daniel.
GarnishmentGarnishment Gar"nish*ment, n. [Cf. OF. garnissement
protection, guarantee, warning.]
1. Ornament; embellishment; decoration. --Sir H. Wotton.
2. (Law)
(a) Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give
information to the court on any matter.
(b) Warning to a person in whose hands the effects of
another are attached, not to pay the money or deliver
the goods to the defendant, but to appear in court and
give information as garnishee.
3. A fee. See Garnish, n., 4. Minishment
Minishment Min"ish*ment, n.
The act of diminishing, or the state of being diminished;
diminution. [Obs.]
Monishment
Monishment Mon"ish*ment, n.
Admonition. [Archaic]
Premonishment
Premonishment Pre*mon"ish*ment, n.
Previous warning or admonition; forewarning. --Sir H. Wotton.
Punishment
Punishment Pun"ish*ment, n.
Severe, rough, or disastrous treatment. [Colloq. or Slang]
Punishment
Punishment Pun"ish*ment, n.
1. The act of punishing.
2. Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person because
of a crime or offense.
I never gave them condign punishment. --Shak.
The rewards and punishments of another life.
--Locke.
3. (Law) A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a
convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally
for the purposes of reformation and prevention.
Reffurnishment
Reffurnishment Ref*fur"nish*ment (-ment), n.
The act of refurnishing, or state of being refurnished.
The refurnishment was in a style richer than before.
--L. Wallace.
Replenishment
Replenishment Re*plen"ish*ment (-ment), n.
1. The act of replenishing, or the state of being
replenished.
2. That which replenishes; supply. --Cowper.
Vanishment
Vanishment Van"ish*ment, n.
A vanishing. [Obs.]
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