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  • adjective Obsolete form of punished.
  • verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of punish.

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Examples

  • Ai fink hoonamz hoo maek kittehs doo stoopy fings shud b punisht.

    Cat Blanchett - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • David; may his hands and his feet be as sacrifices cut off, and so pay for the treasons of his pen and tongue; may all heads that plot treasons, all tongues that speake them, all pens that write them, be so punisht.

    Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

  • Sure you thought to raise our envy, by ringing in our ears, that they were gentlemen, and men of worth; but have a care their cause don't suffer by your impudence; what shou'd the injur'd do when the guilty come to 'em to be punisht?

    The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • I made her understand in what danger we both were, if she shou'd be found with me in that place, and that our lord Eumolpus punisht the least offence.

    The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • I held my fists at Tryphœna, and plainly told her she shou'd feel me, if her lecherous ladiship, who only in the ship deserv'd to be punisht, was not content to decline her pretentions to Gito.

    The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • "Not this day," said he, "but yesterday there came a very pretty woman, who, when she had tir'd me with a long sifting discourse; at last told me you deserv'd to be punisht, and shou'd as a slave, if you longer complain'd."

    The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • "I punisht the raskle tremenjusly in that time, though; and I'm writing this in my own sittn-room, not being able to come down to dinner on account of a black-eye I've got, which is sweld up and disfiggrs me dreadfl."

    Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Balthasar averse to a proposal made by his young friend, to set a spring-gun secretly in the warehouse, whereby the audacious robber might at length be caught and punisht.

    The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Ludwig Tieck 1813

  • World: That he was call'd before the Publick Authority, who could not bear the just Reflections of his damn'd Satyrical way of Writing; and there they punisht the Poor Man, put him in Prison, ruin'd his

    The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon Daniel Defoe 1696

  • Royal Person to new Perils, and new Exiles; but such ingratitude we are punisht with, and You still suffer for, and still forgive it.

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664

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