Definition of sentence

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Sentence (n.) 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..

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Juise :: Juise (n.) Judgment; justice; sentence.
Read :: Read (v. i.) To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly..
Participle :: Participle (n.) A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare participles..
Reversible :: Reversible (a.) Capable of being reversed; as, a chair or seat having a reversible back; a reversible judgment or sentence..
Doomsday :: Doomsday (n.) A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death.
Period :: Period (n.) A complete sentence, from one full stop to another; esp., a well-proportioned, harmonious sentence..
Judge :: "Judge (a.) To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence..
When :: When (adv.) While; whereas; although; -- used in the manner of a conjunction to introduce a dependent adverbial sentence or clause, having a causal, conditional, or adversative relation to the principal proposition; as, he chose to turn highwayman when he might have continued an honest man; he removed the tree when it was the best in the grounds..
Compose :: Compose (v. t.) To construct by mental labor; to design and execute, or put together, in a manner involving the adaptation of forms of expression to ideas, or to the laws of harmony or proportion; as, to compose a sentence, a sermon, a symphony, or a picture..
Abjudicate :: Abjudicate (v. t.) To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge..
Syntaxis :: Syntax (n.) That part of grammar which treats of the construction of sentences; the due arrangement of words in sentences in their necessary relations, according to established usage in any language..
Sentence :: Sentence (v. t.) To decree or announce as a sentence.
Offertory :: Offertory (n.) The Scripture sentences said or sung during the collection of the offerings.
Absolution :: Absolution (n.) An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent..
Petalism :: Petalism (n.) A form of sentence among the ancient Syracusans by which they banished for five years a citizen suspected of having dangerous influence or ambition. It was similar to the ostracism in Athens; but olive leaves were used instead of shells for ballots.
Word :: Word (n.) The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable..
Sentencer :: Sentencer (n.) One who pronounced a sentence or condemnation.
Order :: Order (n.) The placing of words and members in a sentence in such a manner as to contribute to force and beauty or clearness of expression.
Damn :: Damn (v. t.) To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.
Motto :: Motto (n.) A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim..
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