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
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing 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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To pass sentence upon.
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A group of words expressing a complete thought.
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A legal judgment.
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A determination; opinion.
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A maxim.
By James Champlin Fernald
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An opinion; a judgement pronounced by a judge; judicial decision; a maxim; a number of words containing complete sense.
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To pronounce judgement on; to doom. See Sense.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The judgment pronounced on a criminal by a judge; the degree or judgment of a court; a maxim; an opinion; a series of words so arranged as to convey complete sense, and followed by a dot or full point, thus (.).
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To pass judgment on, as a court; to doom; to condemn.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
