Roget's Thesaurus

Chapter 129

Phr. nemo bis punitur pro codem delicto[Lat][obs3].

#971. Condemnation.-- N. condemnation, conviction, judgment, penalty, sentence; proscription, d.a.m.nation; death warrant.

attainder, attainture[obs3], attaintment[obs3].

V. condemn, convict, cast, bring home to, find guilty, d.a.m.n, doom, sign the death warrant, sentence, pa.s.s sentence on, attaint, confiscate, proscribe, sequestrate; nonsuit[obs3].

disapprove &c. 932; accuse &c. 938.



stand condemned.

Adj. condemnatory, d.a.m.natory[obs3]; guilty, condemned &c.v.; nonsuited &c. (failure) 732[obs3]; self-convicted.

Phr. mutato nomine de te fabula narratur[Lat]; "unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved" [P.L.].

#972. Punishment.-- N. punishment,punition[obs3]; chastis.e.m.e.nt, chastening; 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[obs3], gantlet, strappado[obs3], estrapade[obs3], bastinado, argumentum baculinum[Lat][obs3], 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[obs3].

capital punishment; execution; lethal injection; the gas chamber; hanging &c.v.; electrocution, rail-riding, scarpines[obs3]; decapitation, decollation[obs3]; garrotte, garrotto[It]; crucifixion, impalement; firing squad; martyrdom; auto-da-fe[Fr]; noyade[obs3]; happy dispatch.

[suicide as punishment] hara-kiri, seppuku [j.a.panese]; drinking the hemlock.

V. punish; chastise, chasten; castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice; cowhide, lambaste*.

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[obs3], 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[obs3], 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[obs3], 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[obs3]; 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[obs3], 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[obs3]; 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[obs3], 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].

#973. Reward. -- N. reward, recompense, remuneration, meed, guerdon[obs3], reguerdon; price.

[payment for damage or debt] indemnity, indemnification; quittance; compensation; reparation, redress, satisfaction; reckoning, acknowledgment, requital, amends, sop; atonement, retribution; consideration, return, quid pro quo.

salvage, perquisite; vail &c. (donation) 784[obs3].

douceur[Fr], bribe; hush money, smart money!; blackmail, extortion; carcelage; solatium[obs3].

allowance, salary, stipend, wages, compensation; pay, payment; emolument; tribute; batta[obs3], shot, scot; bonus, premium, tip; fee, honorarium; hire; dasturi[obs3], dustoori[obs3]; mileage.

crown &c. (decoration of honor) 877.

V. reward, recompense, repay, requite; remunerate, munerate[obs3]; compensate; fee; pay one"s footing &c. (pay) 807; make amends, indemnify, atone; satisfy, acknowledge.

get for one"s pains, reap the fruits of.

tip.

Adj. remunerative, remuneratory; munerary[obs3], compensatory, retributive, reparatory[obs3]; rewarding; satisfactory.

Phr. fideli certa merces[Lat]; honor virtutis praemium [Lat][Cicero]; tibi seris tibi metis[Lat].

#974. Penalty. -- N. penalty; retribution &c. (punishment) 972; pain, pains and penalties; weregild[obs3], wergild; peine forte et dure[Fr]; penance &c. (atonement) 952; the devil to pay.

fine, mulct, amercement; forfeit, forfeiture; escheat[Law], damages, deodand[obs3], sequestration, confiscation, premunire[Lat]; doomage [obs3][U.S.].

V. fine, mulct, amerce, sconce, confiscate; sequestrate, sequester; escheat[Law]; estreat[obs3], forfeit.

#975. [Instrument of punishment.] Scourge. -- N. scourge, rod, cane, stick; ratan[obs3], rattan; birch, birch rod; azote[obs3], blacksnake[obs3], bullwhack [obs3][U.S.], chicote[obs3], kurbash[obs3], quirt, rawhide, sjambok[obs3]; rod in pickle; switch, ferule, cudgel, truncheon.

whip, bullwhip, lash, strap, thong, cowhide, knout; cat, cat o"nine tails; rope"s end.

pillory, stocks, whipping post; cucking stool[obs3], ducking stool; brank[obs3]; trebuchet[obs3], trebuket[obs3].

triangle[instruments of torture: list], wooden horse, iron maiden, thumbscrew, boot, rack, wheel, iron heel; chinese water torture.

treadmill, crank, galleys.

scaffold; block, ax, guillotine; stake; cross; gallows, gibbet, tree, drop, noose, rope, halter, bowstring; death chair, electric chair; gas chamber; lethal injection; firing squad; mecate[obs3].

house of correction &c. (prison) 752.

goaler, jailer; executioner; electrocutioner[obs3]; lyncher; hangman; headsman[obs3]; Jack Ketch.

-- SECTION V. RELIGIOUS AFFECTIONS

1. SUPERHUMAN BEINGS AND REGIONS --

#976. Deity. -- N. Deity, Divinity; G.o.dhead, G.o.dship[obs3]; Omnipotence, Providence; Heaven [metonymically].

[Quality of being divine] divineness[obs3], divinity.

G.o.d, Lord, Jehovah, Jahweh, Allah[obs3]; The Almighty, The Supreme Being, The First Cause, the Prime Mover; Ens Entium[Lat]; Author of all things, Creator of all things; Author of our being; Cosmoplast[obs3]; El; The Infinite, The Eternal; The All-powerful, The All-wise, The All- merciful, The All-holy.

[Attributes and perfections] infinite power, infinite wisdom, infinite goodness, infinite justice, infinite truth, infinite mercy; omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence; unity, immutability, holiness, glory, majesty, sovereignty, infinity, eternity.

The Trinity, The Holy Trinity, The Trinity in Unity, The Triune G.o.d, G.o.d the Father Son and Holy Ghost.

G.o.d the Father; The Maker, The Creator, The Preserver.

[Functions] creation, preservation, divine government; Theocracy, Thearchy[obs3]; providence; ways of Providence, dealings of Providence, dispensations of Providence, visitations of Providence.

[Christian G.o.d: second person] G.o.d the Son, Jesus, Christ; The Messiah, The Anointed, The Saviour, the Redeemer, The Mediator, The Intercessor, The Advocate, The Judge; The Son of G.o.d, The Son of Man, The Son of David; The Lamb of G.o.d, The Word; Logos; Emmanuel; Immanuel; The King of Kings and Lord of Lords, The King of Glory, The Prince of Peace, The Good Shepherd, The Way, The Truth, The Life, The Bread of Life, The Light of the World; The Lord our, The Sun of Righteousness; "The Pilot of the Galilean lake" [Milton].

The Incarnation, The Hypostatic Union.

[Functions] salvation, redemption, atonement, propitiation, mediation, intercession, judgment.

[Christian G.o.d: third person] G.o.d the Holy Ghost, The Holy Spirit, Paraclete[Theol]; The Comforter, The Spirit of Truth, The Dove.

[Functions] inspiration, unction, regeneration, sanctification, consolation.

eon, aeon, special providence, deus ex machina[Lat]; avatar.

V. create, move, uphold, preserve, govern &c.

atone, redeem, save, propitiate, mediate &c.

predestinate, elect, call, ordain, bless, justify, sanctify, glorify &c.

Adj. almighty, holy, hallowed, sacred, divine, heavenly, celestial; sacrosanct; all-knowing, all-seeing, all-wise; omniscient.

superhuman, supernatural; ghostly, spiritual, hyperphysical[obs3], unearthly; theistic, theocratic; anointed; soterial[obs3].

Adj. jure divino[Lat], by divine right.

Phr. Domine dirige nos[Lat]; en Dieu est ma fiance[Fr]; et sceleratis sol oritur [Lat][Seneca]; "He mounts the storm and walks upon the wind"

[Pope]; "Thou great First Cause, least understood" [Pope]; sans Dieu rien[Fr].

#977. [Beneficent spirits] Angel.-- N. angel, archangel; guardian angel; heavenly host, host of heaven, sons of G.o.d; seraph, seraphim; cherub, cherubim.

ministering spirit, morning star.

saint, patron saint, Madonna; invisible helpers.

Adj. angelic, seraphic, cherubic; saintly.

#978. [Maleficent spirits.] Satan.-- N. Satan, the Devil, Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Ahriman[obs3], Belial; Samael, Zamiel, Beelzebub, the Prince of the Devils.

the tempter[1]; the evil one, the evil spirit; the Adversary; the archenemy; the author of evil, the wicked one, the old Serpent; the Prince of darkness, the Prince of this world, the Prince of the power of the air; the foul fiend, the arch fiend; the devil incarnate; the common enemy, the angel of the bottomless pit; Abaddon[obs3], Apollyon[obs3].

fallen angels, unclean spirits, devils; the rulers, the powers of darkness; inhabitants of Pandemonium; demon &c. 980.

diabolism; devilism[obs3], devilship[obs3]; diabolology[obs3]; satanism, devil worship; manicheism; the cloven foot.

Adj. satanic, diabolic, devilish; infernal, h.e.l.lborn[obs3].

[1-The slang expressions "the deuce, d.i.c.kens, old Gentleman; old Nick, old Scratch, old h.o.r.n.y, old Harry, old Gooseberry," have not been inserted in the text.].

Sampo Niskanen --> -- 2. Mythological and other fabulous Deities and Powers

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