Definition of sentence
- 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.