penitentiary 的 2 个定义
plural pen·i·ten·tia·ries.
- a place for imprisonment, reformatory discipline, or punishment, especially a prison maintained in the U.S. by a state or the federal government for serious offenders.
- Roman Catholic Church. a tribunal in the Curia Romana, presided over by a cardinal , having jurisdiction over certain matters, as penance, confession, dispensation, absolution, and impediments, and dealing with questions of conscience reserved for the Holy See.
- punishable by imprisonment in a penitentiary.
- of, relating to, or intended for imprisonment, reformatory discipline, or punishment.
- penitential.
penitentiary 近义词
jail
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- I didn’t want him to talk himself into the penitentiary for life.
- One of the first documented outbreaks of the 1918 influenza pandemic happened in San Quentin State Prison, the infamous and overpopulated penitentiary where Johnny Cash sang.
- The Mexican Mafia run their empire from the penitentiary to the streets of LA.
- I recently visited Graterford, a maximum-security state penitentiary in Pennsylvania, 30 miles from Philadelphia.
- He is now serving a minimum of a two-year sentence in a federal penitentiary.
- He served two months at the Mississippi state penitentiary before his conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court.
- But under house arrest after 18 months in a federal penitentiary.
- There is nothing like it among us at the present day except within the melancholy precincts of the penitentiary.
- He didn't think the penitentiary the place for them, and would not have the convicts contaminated by them.
- In the three months of penitentiary life I have learned many things.
- We are requiring heavy bail and asking for imprisonment in the penitentiary in case of conviction.
- In a remote state of the West there is a respectable and successful farmer, who was once sentenced to the penitentiary for life.