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Word Meanings - CONVICTISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements. "The evils of convictism." W. Howitt.

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  • PENAL
    Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence: as: Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code. Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact
  • TRANSPORTING
    That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
  • TRANSPORTAL
    Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
  • TRANSPORTABILITY
    The quality or state of being transportable.
  • PRACTICER
    1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
  • TRANSPORTED
    Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.
  • TRANSPORT
    1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt. 2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish. 3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as
  • TRANSPORTABLE
    1. Capable of being transported. 2. Incurring, or subject to, the punishment of transportation; as, a transportable offense.
  • TRANSPORTER
    One who transports.
  • PRACTICED
    1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
  • TRANSPORTINGLY
    So as to transport.
  • PRACTICE
    A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
  • CONVICTISM
    The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements. "The evils of convictism." W. Howitt.
  • TRANSPORTMENT
    The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; transportation.
  • POLICY
    1. Civil polity. 2. The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state. 3. The method
  • PENALITY
    The quality or state of being penal; lability to punishment. Sir T. Browne.
  • TRANSPORTANT
    Transporting; as, transportant love. Dr. H. More.
  • PENALLY
    In a penal manner.
  • PENALIZE
    To put a penalty on. See Penalty, 3. (more info) 1. To make penal.
  • PENALTY
    1. Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass. Death is the penalty imposed. Milton. 2. The suffering,
  • MISTRANSPORT
    To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
  • IMPOLICY
    The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud. Bp. Horsley.
  • MISPOLICY
    Wrong policy; impolicy.
  • MALPRACTICE
    Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.
  • TERM POLICY
    A policy of term insurance.

 

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