PUNISHABLE Copy link • PUNISHABLEpoena or supplicio dignus (of persons or actions; the latter of the higher degrees of punishment, death, etc.): sons (guilty; of persons only): animadvertendus (only of actions; e.g., facinus). Anything is punishable by law, alicujus rei poena est constituta (e.g., reticentiae, Cic.).