“sentenced” is a form of
sentence
[ˈsɛn.tn̩(t)s] noun, verb
Forms sentences sentencing sentenced
- noun (dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict. “The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second.”
- noun The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime. “The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous child rapist.”
- noun A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
- noun (obsolete) A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
- noun (grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied. In modern writing, when using, e.g., the Latin, Greek or Cyrillic alphabets, typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation. “The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard.”
- noun (logic) A formula with no free variables.
- noun (computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
- noun (obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.
- verb (transitive) To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment. “The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine.”
- verb (especially law or poetic) To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence.
- verb (obsolete) To utter sententiously.
Synonyms
clause verdict conviction adjudge condemn doom convict damn deem judge pass sentence judgment of conviction condemnation prison term time
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French sentence, from Latin sententia (“way of thinking, opinion, sentiment”), from sentiēns, present participle of sentiō (“to feel, think”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”).
Webster’s 1913
- noun Sense; meaning; significance. [Obs.]
- noun 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.
- verb 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.
- verb To decree or announce as a sentence. [Obs.] Shak.
Etymology [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.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “sentence”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details