{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ˈsɛntəns" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/sentence.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/sentence.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "Borrowing from Middle French sentence, from Latin sententia (“way of thinking, opinion, sentiment”), from sentiēns, present participle of sentiō (“to feel, think”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict. \nThe court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second.\n1959 October, Colin G. Maggs, “The Bristol-Frome branch of the W.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 473:A branch that has played a significant part in the history of its territory is under sentence at the end of the summer timetables, so far as its passenger services are concerned." }, { "mean": "The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime. \nThe judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous child rapist.\n1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, “chapter I”, in The House Behind the Cedars: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." }, { "mean": "A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm. \n1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book I, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:Men (saith an ancient Greek sentence) are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not by things themselves.\n1748, , “Letter CCVI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: , volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: S Richardson; , →OCLC:I am told that she writes well, and that all her letters are full of sentences." }, { "mean": "(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 or other punctuation. \nHypernym: syntagma\nThe children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard." }, { "mean": "(logic) A formula with no free variables." }, { "mean": "(computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.\n1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales. General Prologue:\nNoght o word spak he moore than was neede,\nAnd that was seyd in forme and reverence\nAnd short and quyk and ful of hy sentence ...\n1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes:\nnow to the discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence, but that, for the most part, either specious rather than solid, or to his cause nothing pertinent.\n1915, T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and Other Observations, published 1917:Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse" }, { "mean": "(obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking. \n1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. , London: , , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:My sentence is for open war." }, { "mean": "(now rare) A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question. \n1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to Some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther and the Original of the Reformation; , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Theater, →OCLC:\nBy them we might pass sentence upon his doctrines." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment.\nThe judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine.\nSynonym: pass sentence\n1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. , London: T N for Henry Herringman, , published 1676, →OCLC, (please specify the page number):Nature herself is sentenced in your doom.\n1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,\nThe 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.\n2016 February 21, “Abortion Laws”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 2, HBO:And at that point, we have sentenced a child to motherhood." }, { "mean": "(especially law or poetic) To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence.\n1874, Ella Taylor Disosway, South Meadows: A Tale of Long Ago, page 235:\n“We are empowered to deliver thee to prison; yea, the law commands us to sentence death upon the abettors of this mischief. \"\n1977, Eugene B. Meier, How was the Acculturation of Children of Alt Lutheraner Descent in Wisconsin 1843 - 1915 Affected by the Relationship of Home and Market?: A Case Study, page 150:\nSo as far as the older generation of German Lutherans were concerned, the abolition of the mother language sentenced death upon the church as they knew it.\n1991, Joe Wayman, If You Promise Not to Tell, Pieces of Learning, →ISBN, page 36:But little did I know, As I cleared away that snow, I'd sentenced death upon that rose, For late that night it simply froze. I'd taken its one chance away, As I stripped it of its quilt that day. I learned a lesson late that night, ...\n1996, United States. Court of Appeals (9th Circuit), Annual Report of the Ninth Circuit, page 137:\n upholding Idaho statute mandating that court \"shall\" sentence death upon finding an aggravating circumstance \"unless\" it finds outweighing mitigating circumstances because satisfies individualized sentencing requirement" }, { "mean": "(obsolete) To utter sententiously.\n1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political\nLet me heare one wise man sentence it, rather then twenty Fooles, garrulous in their lengthened tattle." } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "sentence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. C. 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