\Pu"ni*tive\, a.
Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or
inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.

      If death be punitive, so, likewise, is the necessity
      imposed upon man of toiling for his subsistence. -- I.
                                               Taylor.

      We shall dread a blow from the punitive hand.
                                               --Bagehot.