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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Sentence \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. [1913 Webster]

Nature herself is sentenced in your doom.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

2.To decree or announce as a sentence. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

3.To utter sententiously. [Obs.] --Feltham. [1913 Webster]

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