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sen·tence

Audio Help [sen-tns] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, -tenced, -tenc·ing.

–noun

Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words, bearing minimal syntactic relation to the words that precede or follow it, often preceded and followed in speech by pauses, having one of a small number of characteristic intonation patterns, and typically expressing an independent statement, question, request, command, etc., as Summer is here. or Who is it? or Stop!

Law.

a.	an authoritative decision; a judicial judgment or decree, esp. the judicial determination of the punishment to be inflicted on a convicted criminal.

b.	the punishment itself.

3.	Music. a period.

4.	Archaic. a saying, apothegm, or maxim.

5.	Obsolete. an opinion given on a particular question.

–verb (used with object)

6.	to pronounce sentence upon; condemn to punishment.

[Origin: 1175–1225; (n.) ME < OF < L sententia opinion, decision, equiv. to sent- (base of sentīre to feel) + -entia -ence; (v.) ME: to pass judgment, decide judicially < OF sentencier, deriv. of sentence

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—Related forms

sen·tenc·er, noun

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sen·tence Audio Help (sěn'təns) Pronunciation Key
n.

A grammatical unit that is syntactically independent and has a subject that is expressed or, as in imperative sentences, understood and a predicate that contains at least one finite verb.
Law
1. A court judgment, especially a judicial decision of the punishment to be inflicted on one adjudged guilty.
2. The penalty meted out.
Archaic A maxim.
Obsolete An opinion, especially one given formally after deliberation.

tr.v. sen·tenced, sen·tenc·ing, sen·tenc·es Law
To pronounce sentence upon (one adjudged guilty). See Synonyms at condemn.

[Middle English, opinion, from Old French, from Latin sententia, from sentiēns, sentient-, present participle of sentīre, to feel; see sent- in Indo-European roots.]

sen·ten'tial (sěn-těn'shəl) adj., sen·ten'tial·ly adv.

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c.1290, "doctrine, authoritative teaching," from O.Fr. sentence (12c.), from L. sententia "thought, meaning, judgment, opinion," from sentientem, prp. of sentire "be of opinion, feel, perceive" (see sense). Loss of first -i- in L. by dissimilation. Meaning "punishment imposed by a court" is from c.1300; that of "grammatically complete statement" is attested from 1447, from notion of "meaning," then "meaning expressed in words." The verb meaning "to pass judgment" is recorded from c.1400.

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sentence
noun
1.	a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language; "he always spoke in grammatical sentences"
2.	(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; "the conviction came as no surprise" [syn: conviction] [ant: acquittal]
3.	the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned; "he served a prison term of 15 months"; "his sentence was 5 to 10 years"; "he is doing time in the county jail" [syn: prison term]
verb
1.	pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; "He was condemned to ten years in prison"

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sentence1 [ˈsentəns] noun

a number of words forming a complete statement
Example: `I want it', and `Give it to me!' are sentences.

Arabic:	جُمْلَه
Chinese (Simplified):	句子
Chinese (Traditional):	句子
Czech:	věta
Danish:	sætning
Dutch:	zin
Estonian:	lause
Finnish:	virke, lause
French:	phrase
German:	der Satz
Greek:	πρόταση (γραμμ.)
Hungarian:	mondat
Icelandic:	setning, málsgrein
Indonesian:	kalimat
Italian:	frase

Japanese:	文
Korean:	문장
Latvian:	teikums
Lithuanian:	sakinys
Norwegian:	setning
Polish:	zdanie
Portuguese (Brazil):	sentença
Portuguese (Portugal):	frase
Romanian:	frază
Russian:	предложение
Slovak:	veta
Slovenian:	stavek
Spanish:	frase
Swedish:	mening
Turkish:	cümle

sentence2 [ˈsentəns] noun

a punishment imposed by a lawcourt
Example: a sentence of three years' imprisonment; He is under sentence of death.

Arabic:	عُقوبَه، حُكم
Chinese (Simplified):	判决
Chinese (Traditional):	判決
Czech:	trest
Danish:	straf; dom
Dutch:	vonnis
Estonian:	karistus
Finnish:	tuomio
French:	sentence
German:	das Urteil
Greek:	καταδίκη
Hungarian:	ítélet
Icelandic:	(refsi)dómur
Indonesian:	hukuman
Italian:	sentenza

Japanese:	判決
Korean:	선고
Latvian:	spriedums
Lithuanian:	nuosprendis
Norwegian:	dom, straff
Polish:	wyrok
Portuguese (Brazil):	sentença
Portuguese (Portugal):	sentença
Romanian:	sentinţă
Russian:	приговор
Slovak:	trest
Slovenian:	kazen
Spanish:	sentencia
Swedish:	dom
Turkish:	ceza; hüküm

sentence [ˈsentəns] verb

(usually with to) to condemn to a particular punishment
Example: He was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Arabic:	يَحْكُم على ، يُدين
Chinese (Simplified):	宣判，判决
Chinese (Traditional):	宣判，判決
Czech:	odsoudit
Danish:	dømme
Dutch:	veroordelen
Estonian:	(kohut) mõistma
Finnish:	tuomita
French:	condamner (à)
German:	verurteilen
Greek:	καταδικάζω
Hungarian:	(el)ítél
Icelandic:	dæma
Indonesian:	menghukum
Italian:	condannare

Japanese:	宣告する
Korean:	선고하다
Latvian:	piespriest sodu; notiesāt
Lithuanian:	nuteisti
Norwegian:	dømme, avsi dom over
Polish:	skazywać
Portuguese (Brazil):	condenar, sentenciar
Portuguese (Portugal):	condenar
Romanian:	a condamna (la)
Russian:	приговаривать
Slovak:	odsúdiť
Slovenian:	obsoditi
Spanish:	condenar
Swedish:	döma
Turkish:	mahkûm etmek

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law - Cite This Source - Share This

Main Entry: sentence
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: sen·tenced; sen·tenc·ing
: to impose a sentence on

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Main Entry: sen·tence
Pronunciation: 'sent-^&ns, -^&nz
Function: noun
Etymology: Old French, opinion, judicial sentence, from Latin sententia, ultimately from sentire to feel, think, express an opinion
1 : a judgment formally pronouncing the punishment to be inflicted on one convicted of a crime
2 : the punishment that one convicted of a crime is ordered to receive

concurrent sentence
: a sentence that runs at the same time as another

consecutive sentence
: a sentence that runs before or after another

cumulative sentence
: CONSECUTIVE SENTENCE in this entry; also : the combination of two or more consecutive sentences

death sentence
: a sentence condemning the convicted defendant to death

de·ter·mi·nate sentence
/di-'t&r-m&-n&t-/
: a sentence for a fixed rather than indeterminate length of time

general sentence
: a sentence that does not allocate the punishment imposed for the individual counts on which the defendant was convicted
NOTE: General sentences are impermissible.

in·de·ter·mi·nate sentence
/"in-di-'t&r-m&-n&t-/
: a sentence of minimum and maximum duration with the exact length to be later determined (as by a parole board)

life sentence
: a sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the convicted defendant's life

mandatory sentence
: a sentence that is specifically required or falls within a range required by statute as punishment for an offense <imposed the minimum mandatory sentence for distributing drugs near a school>

presumptive sentence
: a sentence that is the presumed punishment for an offense and is subject to the upward or downward adjustment of its severity depending on aggravating and mitigating factors

split sentence
: a sentence of which part is served in prison and the other suspended and usually replaced by probation

suspended sentence
: a sentence the imposition or execution of which is suspended by the court

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sentence logic
A collection of clauses.
See also definite sentence.
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Sentence

Sense\, n. [L. sensus, from sentire, sensum, to perceive, to feel, from the same root as E. send; cf. OHG. sin sense, mind, sinnan to go, to journey, G. sinnen to meditate, to think: cf. F. sens. For the change of meaning cf. See, v. t. See Send, and cf. Assent, Consent, Scent, v. t., Sentence, Sentient.]

1. (Physiol.) A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See Muscular sense, under Muscular, and Temperature sense, under Temperature.

Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep. --Shak.

What surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate. --Milton.

The traitor Sense recalls The soaring soul from rest. --Keble.

2. Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling.

In a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion through the whole. --Bacon.

3. Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation.

This Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover. --Sir P. Sidney.

High disdain from sense of injured merit. --Milton.

4. Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning. "He speaks sense." --Shak.

He raves; his words are loose As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense. --Dryden.

5. That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion.

I speak my private but impartial sense With freedom. --Roscommon.

The municipal council of the city had ceased to speak the sense of the citizens. --Macaulay.

6. Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark.

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense. --Neh. viii. 8.

I think 't was in another sense. --Shak.

7. Moral perception or appreciation.

Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices. --L' Estrange.

8. (Geom.) One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface.

Common sense, according to Sir W. Hamilton: (a) "The complement of those cognitions or convictions which we receive from nature, which all men possess in common, and by which they test the truth of knowledge and the morality of actions." (b) "The faculty of first principles." These two are the philosophical significations. (c) "Such ordinary complement of intelligence, that,if a person be deficient therein, he is accounted mad or foolish." (d) When the substantive is emphasized: "Native practical intelligence, natural prudence, mother wit, tact in behavior, acuteness in the observation of character, in contrast to habits of acquired learning or of speculation."

Moral sense. See under Moral, (a) .

The inner, or internal, sense, capacity of the mind to be aware of its own states; consciousness; reflection. "This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself, and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense." --Locke.

Sense capsule (Anat.), one of the cartilaginous or bony cavities which inclose, more or less completely, the organs of smell, sight, and hearing.

Sense organ (Physiol.), a specially irritable mechanism by which some one natural force or form of energy is enabled to excite sensory nerves; as the eye, ear, an end bulb or tactile corpuscle, etc.

Sense organule (Anat.), one of the modified epithelial cells in or near which the fibers of the sensory nerves terminate.

Syn: Understanding; reason.

Usage: Sense, Understanding, Reason. Some philosophers have given a technical signification to these terms, which may here be stated. Sense is the mind's acting in the direct cognition either of material objects or of its own mental states. In the first case it is called the outer, in the second the inner, sense. Understanding is the logical faculty, i. e., the power of apprehending under general conceptions, or the power of classifying, arranging, and making deductions. Reason is the power of apprehending those first or fundamental truths or principles which are the conditions of all real and scientific knowledge, and which control the mind in all its processes of investigation and deduction. These distinctions are given, not as established, but simply because they often occur in writers of the present day.

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Sentence

Sen"tence\, n. [F., from L. sententia, for sentientia, from sentire to discern by the senses and the mind, to feel, to think. See Sense, n., and cf. Sentiensi.]

1. Sense; meaning; significance. [Obs.]

Tales of best sentence and most solace. --Chaucer.

The discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence. --Milton.

2. (a) An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.

My sentence is for open war. --Milton.

That by them [Luther's works] we may pass sentence upon his doctrines. --Atterbury. (b) A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.

3. (Law) 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.

Received the sentence of the law. --Shak.

4. A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw. --Broome.

5. (Gram.) 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.

Note: Sentences are simple or compound. A simple sentence consists of one subject and one finite verb; as, "The Lord reigns." A compound sentence contains two or more subjects and finite verbs, as in this verse:

He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all. --Pope.

Dark sentence, a saving not easily explained.

A king . . . understanding dark sentences. --Dan. vii. 23.

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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. [Obs.] --Shak.

3. To utter sententiously. [Obs.] --Feltham.

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