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Sentence
Pronunciation : Sen"tence
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [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.]
Definition : 1. Sense; meaning; significance. [Obs.] Tales of best sentence and most solace. Chaucer. The discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence. Milton.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Sen"tence
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 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.
2. To decree or announce as a sentence. [Obs.] Shak.
3. To utter sentenciously. [Obs.] Feltham.
t. [imp. & p. p. Sentenced; p. pr. & vb. n. Sentencing.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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