Sentence

Definition of Sentence

Sen´tence

Sense; meaning; significance.

Tales of best sentence and most solace.

- Chaucer.

The discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence.

- Milton.

An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.

My sentence is for open war.

- Milton.

That by them [Luther's works] we may pass sentence upon his doctrines.

- Atterbury.

A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.

(Law) In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judicial tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.

Received the sentence of the law.

- Shak.

A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.

(Gram.) A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4.

He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.

- Pope.

Dark sentence
a saying not easily explained.

A king . . . understanding dark sentences.

- Dan. vii. 23.

v. t.

To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.

[imp. & p. p. Sentenced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sentencing .]

Nature herself is sentenced in your doom.

- Dryden.

To decree or announce as a sentence.

To utter sententiously.

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