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- English Word Penological Definition Of or pertaining to penology.
- English Word Penologist Definition One versed in, or a student of, penology.
- English Word Penology Definition The science or art of punishment.
- English Word Penrack Definition A rack for pens not in use.
- English Word Pens Definition pl. of Penny.
- English Word Pensative Definition Pensive.
- English Word Pensel Definition A pencel.
- English Word Pensible Definition Held aloft.
- English Word Pensile Definition Hanging; suspended; pendent; pendulous.
- English Word Pensileness Definition State or quality of being pensile; pendulousness.
- English Word Pension Definition A payment; a tribute; something paid or given.
- English Word Pension Definition A stated allowance to a person in consideration of past services; payment made to one retired from service, on account of age, disability, or other cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the families of soldiers killed in service, or to meritorious authors, or the like.
- English Word Pension Definition A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes.
- English Word Pension Definition A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
- English Word Pension Definition To grant a pension to; to pay a regular stipend to; in consideration of service already performed; -- sometimes followed by off; as, to pension off a servant.
- English Word Pensionaries Definition of Pensionary
- English Word Pensionary Definition Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as, pensionary spies.
- English Word Pensionary Definition Consisting of a pension; as, a pensionary provision for maintenance.
- English Word Pensionary Definition One who receives a pension; a pensioner.
- English Word Pensionary Definition One of the chief magistrates of towns in Holland.