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.