-- Sen"su*ous*ly (#), adv. -- Sen"su*ous*ness, n.
Sent (?), v. & n. See Scent, v. & n. [Obs.] Spenser.
Sent, obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Send, for sendeth.
Sent, imp. & p. p. of Send.
Sen"tence (?), 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.] 1. Sense; meaning; significance. [Obs.]
Tales of best sentence and most solace.
Chaucer.
The discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence.
Milton.
2. (a) 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.
(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 judgical
tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote
the judgment in criminal cases.
Received the sentence of the law.
Shak.
4. A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an
axiom; a saw. Broome.
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.
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.
Pope.
Dark sentence, a saving not easily explained.
A king . . . understanding dark sentences.
Dan. vii. 23.
Sen"tence, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sentenced (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
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.
Dryden.