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English
Adjective
pœnal (not comparable)
- Archaic spelling of penal.
- May 29. 1660 C.E., Songs and Other poems, LIX. To the Kings moſt Sacred Majeſty, on his miraculous and glorious return, page 321:
- No Oaths oblige them, and no Laws controul
- Their ſtrong deſires, but pœnal ones ; and thoſe
- Make them not innocent, but cautelous.
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
pœnal (feminine pœnale, masculine plural pœnaux, feminine plural pœnales)
- Obsolete form of pénal.
1693, Francia, Recueil des Traitez de Paix, page 483:le cours droit ne doit eſtre nullement empêché , ains libre en tout , & qu’en ce on y puiſſe ſans difficulté aucune commencer par commandement, & bien proceder executivement par Mandat pœnal ſans clauſes ; eſtant la Juriſdiction d’icelle ( noſtre Chambre Imperiale ) plus que ſuffiſamment fondée , non ſeulement par diſpoſition du droit commun , parce que T. D. nonobſtant ſon privilege d’exemption en cette violente infraction de la Paix publique, en eſt indubitablement ſujette , & per continentiam cauſæ ratione cæpti Litigii , de la ſuſdite Sentence definitive, mais auſſi pour la qualité de la choſe controverſée, qui comme une franche Comté du S. Empire Romain ſans doute y appartient immediatement, & ſuivant la diſpoſ.d.23. Tit. p.2. ordin.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)