| • | Sense; meaning; significance. | 
											
															| • | An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment,
   especially one of an unfavorable nature. | 
											
															| • | A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as,
   Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences. | 
											
															| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a
   maxim; an axiom; a saw. | 
											
															| • | A combination of words which is complete as expressing a
   thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full
   point. See Proposition, 4. | 
											
															| • | To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to
   condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of. | 
											
															| • | To decree or announce as a sentence. | 
											
															| • | To utter sententiously. |