| has gloss | (noun) the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime
corporal punishment |
| has gloss | eng: The Torah describes certain forms of corporal punishment for certain sins and crimes. |
| lexicalization | eng: Corporal punishment(Judaism) |
| lexicalization | eng: corporal punishment |
| subclass of | (noun) the act of punishing
punishment, penalization, penalisation, penalty |
| has subclass | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
licking, thrashing, beating, drubbing, trouncing, lacing, whacking |
| has subclass | (noun) the use of electricity to administer punishment or torture; "they used cattle prods to administer electric shocks"
electric shock |
| has subclass | (noun) putting a condemned person to death
executing, execution, death penalty, capital punishment |
| has subclass | (noun) a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim
gauntlet, gantlet |
| has subclass | (noun) punishment inflicted by kicking the victim in the behind
kick in the butt |
| has subclass | (noun) the act of pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death)
stoning, lapidation |