A Quick and Simple Dictionary

sentence

1. Noun.  (obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking. (defdate, 14th-17th c.) .
2. Noun.  (context, now) Someone's pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question. (defdate, from 14th c.) .
3. Noun.  (dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict. (defdate, from 14th c.) .
4. Noun.  The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime. (defdate, from 14th c.) .
5. Noun.  (obsolete) A saying, especially form a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm. (defdate, 14th-19th c.) .
6. Noun.  (grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop. (defdate, from 15th c.) .
7. Noun.  (logic) A formula with no free variables. (defdate, from 20th c.) .
8. Noun.  (computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar. (defdate, from 20th c.) .
9. Verb.  To declare a ''sentence'' on a convicted person.