Word Meanings - PENITENTIARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Relating to penance, or to the rules and measures of penance. "A penitentiary tax." Abp. Bramhall. 2. Expressive of penitence; as, a penitentiary letter. 3. Used for punishment, discipline, and reformation. "Penitentiary houses." Blackstone.

Related words: (words related to PENITENTIARY)

• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• DISCIPLINE
  1. To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train. 2. To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit
• PENANCE
  A means of repairing a sin committed, and obtaining pardon for it, consisting partly in the performance of expiatory rites, partly in voluntary submission to a punishment corresponding to the transgression. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments
• DISCIPLINER
  One who disciplines.
• LETTERER
  One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
• RELATIVELY
  In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
• LETTERURE
  Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer.
• PENITENTIARY
  1. One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance. Bacon. 2. One who does penance. Hammond. 3. A small building in a monastery where penitents confessed. Shpiley. 4. That part of a church to which penitents were admitted. Shipley. An office
• RELATE
  1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy
• RELATIVITY
  The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge.
• EXPRESSIVE
  1. Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. Each verse so swells expressive of her woes. Tickell. 2. Full of expression; vividly representing the meaning
• RELATRIX
  A female relator.
• LETTERN
  See LECTURN
• LETTER
  A single type; type, collectively; a style of type. Under these buildings . . . was the king's printing house, and that famous letter so much esteemed. Evelyn. 6. pl. (more info) litera, a letter; pl., an epistle, a writing, literature, fr. linere,
• PENITENTIARYSHIP
  The office or condition of a penitentiary of the papal court. Wood.
• LETTERPRESS
  Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations. Letterpress printing, printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates.
• RELATIONAL
  1. Having relation or kindred; related. We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems. Tooke. 2. Indicating or specifying some relation. Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc. R. Morris.
• RELATED
  See 4 (more info) 1. Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or second degree. 2. Standing in relation or connection; as, the electric
• LETTERLESS
  1. Not having a letter. 2. Illiterate. E. Waterhouse.
• LETTERWOOD
  The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus Brosimum , found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• PRELATISM
  Prelacy; episcopacy.
• PRELATIZE
  To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• IRRELATIVE
  Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. Irrelative chords , those having no common tone. -- Irrelative repetition , the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence
• CORRELATIVENESS
  Quality of being correlative.
• IRRELATION
  The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation.
• PRELATEITY
  Prelacy. Milton.
• CORRELATE
  To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related. Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice. Tylor.
• PRELATY
  Prelacy. Milton.
• SELF-DISCIPLINE
  Correction or government of one's self for the sake of improvement.
• UNPRELATED
  Deposed from the office of prelate.
• PRELATESHIP
  The office of a prelate. Harmar.