penitentiary

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A state or federal prison for convicted felons; (loosely) a prison.

   “For quotations using this term, see Citations:penitentiary.”

2. isim A priest in the Roman Catholic Church who administers the sacrament of penance.
3. isim One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance.
4. isim One who does penance.
5. isim A small building in a monastery, or a part of a church, where penitents confessed.

   “Topics which a priest may not treat , and which bishops declare are unfit for sacramental confession even in penitentiaries, become , with either public or private approval , the subject - matter of platform speeches”

6. isim An office of the papal court which examines cases of conscience, confession, absolution from vows, etc., and delivers decisions, dispensations, etc.; run by a cardinal called the Grand Penitentiary who is appointed by the pope.
7. isim An officer in some dioceses since 1215, vested with power from the bishop to absolve in cases reserved to him.
8. sıfat Of or relating to penance; penitential.

   “A penitentiary tax.”

9. sıfat Of or relating to the punishment of criminals.

   “Penitentiary houses.”