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‖ pœna|ˈpiːnə|
Also pena. In phrases freq. in L. inflected forms.
[a. L. pœna penalty.]
a. Chiefly Law and Theology. A punishment.
1632in Decisions Court of Session (1805) XXIV. 10036 They..were content to pay the L. 100 loco penae. 1678G. Mackenzie Laws & Customs Scotl. ii. xxx. 560 Skeen..observes, that pœna extraordinaria, may be sometimes extended to death. 1757in Decisions Court of Session (1805) XXIV. 10049 Expenses of plea..are in no case due or exigible, unless the Court finds that a party has been litigious, and specially subjects him to the costs of his opponent, in pœnam of his offence. 1859T. C. Sandars Inst. Justinian (ed. 2) 492 Pœna is a punishment imposed by some general law, affecting possibly the caput and existimatio of the person punished. 1863Scottish Jurist XXXV. 588/2 It is plain that here pœna—penalty—is used to mean a sum stipulated to be paid in the event of breach of contract. 1916Joyce Portrait of Artist (1969) 128 This is the greatest torment which the created soul is capable of bearing, pœna damni, the pain of loss. 1953F. de Zulueta Inst. Gaius II. iii. 207 In these cases of negative interest there is no question of dividing the action or the poena recovered. 1959Jowitt Dict. Eng. Law II. 1357/1 Pœna, a penalty, the punishment of an offence; generally inflicted for delicts.
b. School slang. = imposition 5 c.
1842Eton Bureau 251 Then the luxury, when told to write out and translate my lesson, to know that beneath the ill-formed letters that disfigured my ‘pœna’, might safely lurk an intimation to posterity that the reader—charitably supposed to be the inflictor of the punishment—‘was a fool’. 1865Etoniana xiv. 201 To such a boy, of course, the usual ‘pœna’ of lines from a Greek or Latin poet to learn by heart could be no kind of punishment at all. 1870‘Etonian’ Recoll. Eton I. viii. 87 He got a pœna for coming in late for morning school one day. 1877G. N. Bankes Day of My Life xiii. 136 It's wretched bad practice for handwriting, this pœna writing. 1911R. Nevill Floreat Etona x. 301 Their usual practice being either to set some tremendous ‘poena’, which they afterwards revoked, or settle upon the wrong boy. 1941L. A. G. Strong Bay 70 If you were in disgrace he..helped you with your poena and shooed you out of the empty classroom. |