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Sentence   /sˈɛntəns/   Listen
noun
Sentence  n.  
1.
Sense; meaning; significance. (Obs.) "Tales of best sentence and most solace." "The discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence."
2.
(a)
An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature. "My sentence is for open war." "That by them (Luther's works) we may pass sentence upon his doctrines."
(b)
A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.
3.
(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."
4.
A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.
5.
(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. Note: Sentences are simple or compound. A simple sentence consists of one subject and one finite verb; as, "The Lord reigns." A compound sentence contains two or more subjects and finite verbs, as in this verse: - "He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all."
Dark sentence, a saying not easily explained. "A king... understanding dark sentences."


verb
Sentence  v. t.  (past & past part. sentenced; pres. part. sentencing)  
1.
To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of. "Nature herself is sentenced in your doom."
2.
To decree or announce as a sentence. (Obs.)
3.
To utter sententiously. (Obs.)





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... Introduction" Eimer first treats of Orthogenesis in opposition to the Darwinian theory of selection. The very first sentence gives evidence of this antagonism: "According to my investigation, organic growth (Organophysis), which is rendered dependent on the plasm by permanent external influences, climate and nourishment, and the expression of which is found in development along definitely determined lines, ...
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... occupying a good situation as registrar of a town of about 10,000 inhabitants. He says he has left off acting and wishes to know if I have done the same; and he also inquires after many of his old Keighley friends. This sentence leads me to refer to a few more of my own friends in the days of yore. There is the Rev William Thawbrey, a Wesleyan Methodist minister at Keighley, who subsequently took up work in the mission field in South Africa. Then there are the late Mr Thomas Carrodus, the manager of the ...
— Adventures and Recollections • Bill o'th' Hoylus End
... make amends.... I wonder how the dead make their amends?... For me to burn in hell avails her nothing.... If she thought it she would weep uncomforted.... No; there is a justice. But how it operates I shall never understand until it summons me to hear my sentence." ...
— The Hidden Children • Robert W. Chambers


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