Dictionary entry

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Webster's Dictionary 1913

Sen″tence, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Sentenced (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Sentencing (?).] 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. Shak.

3. To utter sententiously. Feltham.