sentence

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   verdictnoundatedcountable

   The decision or verdict reached by a court or jury.

   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.

   1959, Colin G. Maggs, “The Bristol-Frome branch of the W.R.”Here, under sentence means a decision has been made against it.

   The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second.

   Similarverdict, judgment, decision, ruling, finding

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   verbtransitive

   To officially announce something, usually a punishment, as a judgment.

   So 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.

   1977, Eugene B. Meier, How was the Acculturation of Children of Alt Lutheraner Descent in Wisconsin 1843 - 1915 Affected by the…

   Similardecree, pronounce, ordain

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   stated opinionnounarchaic

   A firmly stated opinion or judgment about a particular question.

   By them [Martin Luther's works] we might pass sentence upon his doctrines.

   1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to Some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther and the Original of the ReformationHere, sentence means an opinion or judgment about something.

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   nounobsolete

   A wise saying, especially one from a great person.

   I am told that she writes well, and that all her letters are full of sentences.

   1748, [Samuel Richardson], ClarissaHere, sentences means short, wise sayings.

   Men (saith an ancient Greek sentence) are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not by things themselves.

   1603, Michel de Montaigne, The EssayesHere, sentence means a short, wise saying.

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   nounobsolete

   A person's opinion or way of thinking.

   My sentence is for open war.

   1667, John Milton, Paradise LostHere, sentence means my own opinion, what I think.

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   nounobsolete

   The meaning, sense, or significance of something.

   now 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.

   1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs]Here, sentence means meaning or sense.

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    verbobsolete

    To speak in a serious, wise-sounding way, as if giving a maxim.

    Let me heare one wise man sentence it, rather then twenty Fooles, garrulous in their lengthened tattle.

    1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: DivineHere, sentence means say something like a wise saying.

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    noun

    A line of symbols that the rules of a formal grammar can produce.
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    noun

    A logic formula in which every variable is tied down, with none left open.