せいばい

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of せいばい – see the following entry.

【成敗】 [noun] settlement [noun] punishment [noun] execution; killing (under the name of justice) [verb] to settle [verb] to punish [verb] to execute, to kill (under the name of justice)

(This term, せいばい (seibai), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)