SENTENCE (2)

sentence (2). Sentence, v.t. to condemn, doom, consign

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Sen″tence, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sentenced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sentencing (?).] 1. 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. 2. To decree or announce as a sentence. Shak.
3. 3. To utter sententiously. Feltham.