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Definition of: penal
(pē′nəl) adjective
1. Pertaining to punishment or its means or place.
2. Liable, or rendering liable, to punishment.
3. Enacting or prescribing punishment. [<OF penal <L penalis, poenalis <poena a penalty <Gk. poinē a fine]
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