[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a place for imprisonment, reformatory discipline, or punishment, especially a prison maintained in the U.S. by a state or the federal government for serious offenders.", "Roman Catholic Church.a tribunal in the Curia Romana, presided over by a cardinalgrand penitentiary,having jurisdiction over certain matters, as penance, confession, dispensation, absolution, and impediments, and dealing with questions of conscience reserved for the Holy See."]}, {"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["(of an offense) punishable by imprisonment in a penitentiary.", "of, relating to, or intended for imprisonment, reformatory discipline, or punishment.", "penitential ."]}]