n
The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
n
(obsolete, law) Banishment.
n
Alternative spelling of abannation [(obsolete, law) Banishment.]
n
(obsolete) Expulsion; banishment.
n
(rare) One who abnegates, denies, or rejects.
adj
(rare) Absolutory; of, exhibiting, or pertaining to absolution.
n
Obsolete spelling of absolviture [(rare) absolution]
n
The person to whom a property is alienated.
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(ecclesiastical, historical) A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed.
n
One who anathematizes; a severe critic.
v
(transitive) To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
n
One who is banished; an exile.
adj
Alternative form of banished [Having been subject to banishment; kicked out and forbidden from returning; forbidden and prohibited.]
n
A form of expulsion of any individual from the University of Oxford, by putting the proctorial edict up in some public place, as a denunciation or promulgation of it. It also served to prevent the individual from claiming the cause of expulsion.
n
(obsolete) The act of expulsion.
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(historical) Synonym of ban (“gathering for war; mulct or penalty”)
adj
(crime) Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death.
n
The act or process of censuring; censure or condemnation.
n
(law) The process of conniving or conspiring.
n
(law) The doctrine in English common law that someone attainted of felony or treason has corrupt blood and so cannot inherit property and has no legal heirs.
n
The act of making a previously legal activity illegal, the act of making something a criminal offence.
adj
Obsolete form of devoted. [Vowed; dedicated; consecrated.]
n
a harsh penalty or settlement imposed upon a defeated party by the victor
n
(obsolete) A shutting off; exclusion.
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The removal from the fellowship of the Lord's Table (participation in the Lord's Supper); excommunication or expulsion from a Christian church.
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Alternative spelling of excommunication [The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.]
n
(informal) A former prisoner.
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The freeing of a member of the clergy from the jurisdiction of a particular bishop
n
(obsolete) One who takes exceptions or protests.
n
(obsolete) The act of pushing or forcing something out.
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One who has been excommunicated.
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An excommunicated person.
n
One who is excommunicated.
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The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
n
(obsolete) A shutting out from communion; excommunication.
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A license or permit for absence from a university or a religious house (such as a monastery).
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(religion) The rite of confession and repentance.
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(formal, archaic, rare) One who expiscates.
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The act of making somebody into a felon.
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A crime prevention strategy which aims to deter crime by implementing a mix of law enforcement, social services, and community mobilization.
n
Alternative form of repeat offender [A person who has previously offended against the law, often someone who may be deemed incorrigible.]
v
To make illegal; to prohibit by law, to criminalize.
adj
(law) Of a crime, imposing criminal liability for an incompleted act.
n
An act of abandoning a person in a remote, deserted place.
n
A microscopic penitente (that grows into a full-size one)
n
One who or that which penalizes.
adv
According to a penal code
adj
Of or relating to penance; penitential.
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(figuratively) Crime, offence, wrongdoing.
n
(Christianity) A person excommunicated from the church; an excommunicant or excommunicate; also, a person who does not follow a Christian religion; a heathen, a pagan.
n
The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction.
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(historical, obsolete) A person who has been banished from proximity to Rome for a set time, but without losing his civil rights.
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Obsolete form of renegade. [An outlaw or rebel.]
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A repeat offender; someone who reoffends, who commits a crime on more than one occasion.
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A person who has previously offended against the law, often someone who may be deemed incorrigible.
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A philosophy of law, stating that criminals should be punished (retribution) for the harm they have caused.
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(crime) A series of practices and philosophies aimed at rehabilitating perpetrators of crime, especially of interpersonal violence.
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One who exercises the power to refuse approval.
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an abolition or abrogation
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(historical) An outlaw, outcast, or exile; one driven out of society for his crimes.
n
(archaic) An apostate or perfidious renegade.
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