Read full poem →players of interludes and common plays, were declared
to be rogues, and liable to be punished according to
the statutes of the 3Qth of Queen Elizabeth, and 7th
Dictionary Entry
To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action.
In a Sentence
“If a prince violates the law, then he must be punished like an ordinary person.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. punishedpunished severely
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Poetry examples for “punished”
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Read full poem →There is the silence of defeat.
There is the silence of those unjustly punished;
And the silence of the dying whose hand
Read full poem →So surely shalt thou feel this rod,
And punished shalt thou be!
Read full poem →Prospero was general, his crime against Milan general. With Pros-
pero’s brother an intenser course is necessary. Before he is punished,
he is made (by temptation— the others’ magic sleep) to re-enact his
Read full poem →1652, Punished for disobedience, Cambridge.
Read full poem →By love so vainly fed;
So lust of old the deluge punished. COWLEY.