Sentence
['sent(ə)ns] or ['sɛntəns]
Definition
(noun.) a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language; 'he always spoke in grammatical sentences'.
(verb.) pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; 'He was condemned to ten years in prison'.
Checked by Danny--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Sense; meaning; significance.
(n.) An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.
(n.) A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.
(v. t.) To decree or announce as a sentence.
(v. t.) To utter sententiously.
Editor: Lyle
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Decision, judgment, determination.[2]. (Common Law.) Condemnation, doom, judgment passed on a criminal.[3]. (Civil and Admiralty Law.) Judicial decree.[4]. Period, proposition.
v. a. Doom, condemn, pass judgment upon.
Checked by Balder
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Judgment, decree, decision, doom, phrase, passage,[See OBSTINATE]
Checked by Elton
Definition
n. opinion: a judgment pronounced on a criminal by a court or judge: a maxim: (gram.) a number of words containing a complete thought: sense: meaning: matter.—v.t. to pronounce judgment on: to condemn.—n. Sen′tencer one who sentences.—adj. Senten′tial pertaining to a sentence: comprising sentences.—adv. Senten′tially.—adj. Senten′tious abounding with sentences or maxims: short and pithy in expression: bombastic or affected in speech.—adv. Senten′tiously.—n. Senten′tiousness brevity with strength.—Master of the Sentences the great 12th-century schoolman Peter Lombard (died 1160) from his work Sententiarum Libri IV. an arranged collection of sentences from Augustine &c.
Editor: Ricky
Examples
- The address was solemn and impressive; the sentence fearful to hear. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I think, if they bring me out to be hanged to-morrow, as is much to be doubted they may, I will try its weight upon the finisher of the sentence. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Volumnia's finishing the sentence restores her to favour. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It was considered very pleasant reading, but I never read more of it myself than the sentence on which I chanced to light on opening the book. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Then I took down the sentence in writing. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- His lips parted, as if to speak: but he checked the coming sentence, whatever it was. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The second sentence literally petrified her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He brought out his sentences in short violent jerks, as though they were forced up from a deep inner crater of indignation. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- There are names, and Christian symbols, and prayers, or sentences expressive of Christian hopes, carved upon nearly every sarcophagus. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It contained these two sentences in Pesca's handwriting-- Your letter is received. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He held steadily to the subject of the Diamond; but he ceased to complete his sentences. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The break he set between his last two sentences was quite embarrassing to his hearer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I read among my notes, now, with a new interest, some sentences from an edition of 1621 of the Apocryphal New Testament. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is observed by critics, that all words or sentences, which are difficult to the pronunciation, are disagreeable to the ear. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Thus a man in a strong prison well-guarded, without the least means of escape, trembles at the thought of the rack, to which he is sentenced. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Penelope persisted in believing that she was to be forthwith tried, sentenced, and transported for theft. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- For several days and nights after he was sentenced I took no rest except when I fell asleep in my chair, but was wholly absorbed in these appeals. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It was like asking, as a favour, to be sentenced to transportation from Dora. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Checker: Susie