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   Sentence , n. [F., from L. sententia, for sentientia, from sentire to discern by the senses and the mind, to feel, to think. See Sense, n., and cf. Sentiensi.]
   Sense; meaning; significance. [Obs.]
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   Tales of best sentence and most solace.
   Chaucer.
   
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   The discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence.
   Milton.
   
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   (a) An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.
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   My sentence is for open war.
   Milton.
   
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   That by them [Luther's works] we may pass sentence upon his doctrines.
   Atterbury.
   
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   (b) A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.
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   (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.
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   Received the sentence of the law.
   Shak.
   
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   A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.
   Broome.
   
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   (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.
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   ☞ 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: -
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   He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
   Pope.
   
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   Dark sentence, a saying not easily explained.
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   A king . . . understanding dark sentences.
   Dan. vii. 23.
   
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   Sentence, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sentenced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sentencing .]
   To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.
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   Nature herself is sentenced in your doom.
   Dryden.
   
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   To decree or announce as a sentence. [Obs.]
   Shak.
   
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   To utter sententiously. [Obs.]
   Feltham.
   
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