sentence
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle French sentence, from Latin sententia (“way of thinking, opinion, sentiment”), from sentiens, present participle of sentīre (“to feel, think”); see sentient, sense, scent.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
sentence (plural sentences)
- (obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking. [14th-17th c.]
- (now rare) Someone's pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question. [from 14th c.]
- (dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict. [from 14th c.]
- The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second.
- The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime. [from 14th c.]
- The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous cattle rustler.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.
- (obsolete) A saying, especially form a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm. [14th-19th c.]
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.40:
- Men (saith an ancient Greek sentence) are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not by things themselves.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.40:
- (grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop. [from 15th c.]
- The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard.
- (logic) A formula with no free variables. [from 20th c.]
- (computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar. [from 20th c.]
Synonyms [edit]
Hypernyms [edit]
- (logic): formula
Related terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate
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decision of a jury
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conviction
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punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime
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Verb [edit]
sentence (third-person singular simple present sentences, present participle sentencing, simple past and past participle sentenced)
- To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.
- The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine.
- Dryden
- Nature herself is sentenced in your doom.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.
- (obsolete) To decree or announce as a sentence.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To utter sententiously.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Feltham to this entry?)
Translations [edit]
declare a sentence on a convicted person
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External links [edit]
- sentence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- sentence in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Czech [edit]
Noun [edit]
sentence f
Synonyms [edit]
- (grammar): věta
Middle French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Latin sententia.
Noun [edit]
sentence f (plural sentences)
- sentence (judgement; verdict)
- 1532, François Rabelais, Pantagruel:
- […] puis retourna s'asseoir et commença pronuncer la sentence comme s'ensuyt :
- […] then went back and sat down and started to give the verdict as follows:
- […] puis retourna s'asseoir et commença pronuncer la sentence comme s'ensuyt :
- 1532, François Rabelais, Pantagruel:
- sentence (grammatically complete series of words)
- 1552, François Rabelais, Le Tiers Livre:
- tant a cause des amphibologies, equivocques, & obscuritez des motz, que de la briefveté des sentences
- 1552, François Rabelais, Le Tiers Livre:
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