Meanings
adjectivepœnal (not comparable)
- archaicnot comparableArchaic spelling of penal.
No Oaths oblige them, and no Laws controul Their ſtrong deſires, but pœnal ones ; and thoſe Make them not innocent, but cautelous.
May 29. 1660 C.E., Songs and Other poems, LIX. To the Kings moſt Sacred Majeſty, on his miraculous and glorious return, page 321
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