SENTENCE
\sˈɛntəns], \sˈɛntəns], \s_ˈɛ_n_t_ə_n_s]\
Definitions of SENTENCE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Legal Glossary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
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Sense; meaning; significance.
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A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.
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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.
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A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.
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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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To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.
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To utter sententiously.
By Oddity Software
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Sense; meaning; significance.
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A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.
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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.
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A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.
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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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To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.
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To utter sententiously.
By Noah Webster.
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Punishment in a criminal case. A sentence can range from a fine and community service to life imprisonment or death. For most crimes, the sentence is chosen by the trial judge; the jury chooses the sentence only in a capital case, when it must choose between life in prison without parole and death.
By Oddity Software
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Judgment, opinion, or decision; judgment pronounced by a court; a series of words containing a subject and a predicate, and expressing a thought completely.
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To condemn by judgment of a court.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Opinion: a judgment pronounced on a criminal by a court or judge: a maxim: (gram.) a number of words containing a complete thought.
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To pronounce judgment on: to condemn.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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