2. (modifier) punitive.
I te tau 1843, ka toko ake te whakaaro i a Paratene Tūrangi kua kapatau tētahi tangata o Reporua ki te mākutu i tētahi o ōna whanaunga. Nāna te heke waka taua ngawhi i hautū (TTR 1990:111). / In 1843 Paratene Tūrangi decided that a person at Reporua had threatened to use witchcraft against one of his relatives. He led a punitive expedition of war canoes.
3. (noun) punishment, penalty, punitive measure, chastisement.
O rātou ko Tonga mā i hopukina e te ture, e 34 kāhore i whakaae ki te mau kaka hōia, ki te whakawai rānei hei hōia; hei ngawhi i ēnei, i whakatikia rātou (he parāoa, he wai noa iho), kātahi ka mauria ki te whare herehere mō tētehi wā nei (TTR 1996:81). / Of them Tonga and others were arrested, 34 refused to wear military uniform or to train as soldiers, and as a punishment they were deprived of food (just bread and water), then taken to prison for a period.
