[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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
see also:
sentenced sentencing 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

sentence \sen"tence\, n. f., from l. sententia, for sentientia,
   from sentire to discern by the senses and the mind, to feel,
   to think. see sense, n., and cf. sentiensi.
   1. sense; meaning; significance. obs.
      1913 webster

            tales of best sentence and most solace. --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            the discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of
            sentence.                             --milton.
      1913 webster

   2.
      a an opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment,
          especially one of an unfavorable nature.
          1913 webster

                my sentence is for open war.      --milton.
          1913 webster

                that by them luther's works we may pass
                sentence upon his doctrines.      --atterbury.
          1913 webster
      b a philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as,
          summary of the sentences; book of the sentences.
          1913 webster

   3. law 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 judicial tribunal;
      doom. in common law, the term is exclusively used to
      denote the judgment in criminal cases.
      1913 webster

            received the sentence of the law.     --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. a short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a
      maxim; an axiom; a saw. --broome.
      1913 webster

   5. gram. 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.
      1913 webster

   note: sentences are simple or compound. a simple sentence
         consists of one subject and one finite verb; as, "the
         lord reigns." a compound sentence contains two or more
         subjects and finite verbs, as in this verse: 
         1913 webster

               he fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
                                                  --pope.
         1913 webster

   dark sentence, a saying not easily explained.
      1913 webster

            a king . . . understanding dark sentences. --dan.
                                                  vii. 23.
      1913 webster
see also:
sense sentiensi proposition dark sentence 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

sentence
     n 1: a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a
          language; "he always spoke in grammatical sentences"
     2: criminal law a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case
        and the punishment that is imposed; "the conviction came
        as no surprise" syn: conviction, judgment of
        conviction, condemnation ant: acquittal
     3: the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned; "he served a
        prison term of 15 months"; "his sentence was 5 to 10
        years"; "he is doing time in the county jail" syn: prison
        term, time
     v : pronounce a sentence on somebody in a court of law; "he
         was condemned to ten years in prison" syn: condemn, doom
see also:
conviction judgment of conviction condemnation acquittal prison term time 
condemn doom 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

181 moby thesaurus words for "sentence":
   parthian shot, acquittal, act on, action, adage, address,
   adjectival phrase, adjudge, adjudicate, affirmation, allegation,
   ana, analects, anathematize, anathematizing, answer, aphorism,
   apostrophe, apothegm, article, assertion, attaint, averment, award,
   axiom, back matter, blacklist, blame, book, bring home to, byword,
   catchword, censure, chapter, clause, collected sayings, comment,
   condemn, condemnation, consideration, construction, convict,
   conviction, crack, current saying, damn, damnation, death sentence,
   death warrant, decision, declaration, decree, deliverance,
   denounce, denouncement, denunciate, denunciation, determination,
   devote, diagnosis, dictate, dictum, distich, doom, epigram,
   exclamation, excommunicate, excommunication, expression, fascicle,
   find, find against, find for, find guilty, finding, folio,
   front matter, gathering, gnome, golden saying, greeting,
   guilty verdict, headed group, idiom, idiotism, interjection, judge,
   judgement, judgment, landmark decision, locution,
   manner of speaking, maxim, mention, moral, mot, motto, note,
   noun phrase, number, observation, oracle, ordain, order, page,
   paragraph, pass judgment, pass sentence, pass sentence on, passage,
   peculiar expression, penalize, penalty, period, phrasal idiom,
   phrase, pithy saying, position, precedent, precept, prescript,
   prognosis, pronounce, pronounce judgment, pronounce on,
   pronounce sentence, pronouncement, proscribe, proscription,
   proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, punish, punishment, question,
   rap, reflection, remark, report, resolution, return a verdict,
   rule, ruling, saw, say, saying, section, sententious expression,
   set phrase, sheet, signature, sloka, standard phrase, statement,
   stock saying, subjoinder, sutra, syntactic structure, teaching,
   term, text, thought, turn of expression, turn of phrase, usage,
   utter a judgment, utterance, verb complex, verb phrase, verbalism,
   verdict, verdict of guilty, verse, way of speaking, wisdom,
   wisdom literature, wise saying, witticism, word, word-group,
   words of wisdom

[5] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

sentence
     
         a collection of clauses.
     
        1996-12-08
     
     
see also:
clauses 

[6] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

sentence. a judgment, or judicial declaration made by a judge in a cause. 
the term judgment is more usually applied to civil, and sentence to criminal 
proceedings. 
     2. sentences are final, when they put, an end to the case; or 
interlocutory, when they settle only some incidental matter which has arisen 
in the course of its progress. vide aso  man. inst. b. 3, t. 8, c. 1. 

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