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  • English Word Sent Definition See Scent, v. & n.
  • English Word Sent Definition obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Send, for sendeth.
  • English Word Sent Definition imp. & p. p. of Send.
  • English Word Sent Definition of Send
  • English Word Sentence Definition Sense; meaning; significance.
  • English Word Sentence Definition An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.
  • English Word Sentence Definition A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.
  • English Word Sentence Definition 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.
  • English Word Sentence Definition A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.
  • English Word Sentence Definition 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.
  • English Word Sentence Definition To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.
  • English Word Sentence Definition To decree or announce as a sentence.
  • English Word Sentence Definition To utter sententiously.
  • English Word Sentenced Definition of Sentence
  • English Word Sentencer Definition One who pronounced a sentence or condemnation.
  • English Word Sentencing Definition of Sentence
  • English Word sentential Definition Comprising sentences; as, a sentential translation.
  • English Word sentential Definition Of or pertaining to a sentence, or full period; as, a sentential pause.
  • English Word Sententially Definition In a sentential manner.
  • English Word Sententiarist Definition A sententiary.
  • English Word Sententiary Definition One who read lectures, or commented, on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris (1159-1160), a school divine.
  • English Word Sententiosity Definition The quality or state of being sententious.
  • English Word Sententious Definition Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.
  • English Word Sententious Definition Comprising or representing sentences; sentential.
  • English Word Sentery Definition A sentry.
  • English Word Senteur Definition Scent.
  • English Word Sentience Definition Alt. of Sentiency
  • English Word Sentiency Definition The quality or state of being sentient; esp., the quality or state of having sensation.
  • English Word Sentient Definition Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues.
  • English Word Sentient Definition One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.