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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
punishable
adj
  1. liable to or deserving punishment; "punishable offenses"
  2. subject to punishment by law; "a penal offense"
    Synonym(s): penal, punishable
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Punishable \Pun"ish*a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. punissable.]
      Deserving of, or liable to, punishment; capable of being
      punished by law or right; -- said of person or offenses.
  
               That time was, when to be a Protestant, to be a
               Christian, was by law as punishable as to be a traitor.
                                                                              -- Milton.
      -- {Pun"ish*a*ble*ness}, n.
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