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.