Word Meanings - FELONRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A body of felons; specifically, the convict population of a penal colony. Howitt.

Related words: (words related to FELONRY)

• 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
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• POPULATION
  1. The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants. 2. The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.
• CONVICTION
  A judgment of condemnation entered by a court having jurisdiction; the act or process of finding guilty, or the state of being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal. Conviction may accrue two ways. Blackstone. 3. The act of convincing of
• COLONY
  A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range. (more info) 1. A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent
• CONVICT
  Proved or found guilty; convicted. Shak. Convict by flight, and rebel to all law. Milton.
• CONVICTIVE
  Convincing. The best and most convictive argument. Glanwill. -- Con*vict"ive*ly, adv. -- Con*vict"ive*ness, n.
• CONVICTIBLE
  Capable of being convicted. Ash.
• CONVICTISM
  The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements. "The evils of convictism." W. Howitt.
• PENALITY
  The quality or state of being penal; lability to punishment. Sir T. Browne.
• 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,
• SELF-CONVICTION
  The act of convicting one's self, or the state of being self- convicted.
• CROWN COLONY
  A colony of the British Empire not having an elective magistracy or a parliament, but governed by a chief magistrate appointed by the Crown, with executive councilors nominated by him and not elected by the people.
• DEPOPULATION
  The act of depopulating, or condition of being depopulated; destruction or explusion of inhabitants. The desolation and depopulation were now complete. Motley.
• REPOPULATION
  The act of repeopling; act of furnishing with a population anew.
• SELF-CONVICTED
  Convicted by one's own consciousness, knowledge, avowal, or acts.