คำว่า ' penitentiary ' ( ADJ )


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คำนิยามในภาษาอังกฤษ (definition) :
[a.] Relating to penance, or to the rules and measures of penance.
[a.] Expressive of penitence; as, a penitentiary letter.
[a.] Used for punishment, discipline, and reformation.
[n.] One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance.
[n.] One who does penance.
[n.] A small building in a monastery where penitents confessed.
[n.] That part of a church to which penitents were admitted.
[n.] An office of the papal court which examines cases of conscience, confession, absolution from vows, etc., and delivers decisions, dispensations, etc. Its chief is a cardinal, called the Grand Penitentiary, appointed by the pope.
[n.] An officer in some dioceses since A. D. 1215, vested with power from the bishop to absolve in cases reserved to him.
[n.] A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor.




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