prisonria.
(Of penance).
1. adj. belonger or relative to the penitentiary or criminal.
2. adj. said of a secular or regular priest: obliged to confess to the penitents in a particular Church. U t. c. s.
3. adj. said of a canonry or benefit: that this obligation is annexed.
4. adj. It is said of any of the systems modernly adopted for punishment and correction of convicts, and the regime or service establishments for this object.
5. m. Cardinal President of the Court of the penitentiary in Rome.? V.
