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Sentence (v. t.) To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.

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Vacancy :: Vacancy (n.) An open or unoccupied space between bodies or things; an interruption of continuity; chasm; gap; as, a vacancy between buildings; a vacancy between sentences or thoughts..
Convict :: Convict (n.) A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
Censure :: Censure (v. i.) To condemn or reprimand by a judicial or ecclesiastical sentence.
Ejaculatory :: Ejaculatory (a.) Suddenly darted out; uttered in short sentences; as, an ejaculatory prayer or petition..
Doom :: Doom (v. t.) Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.
Irreversible :: Irreversible (a.) Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled; as, an irreversible sentence or decree..
Attainder :: Attainder (n.) The act of attainting, or the state of being attainted; the extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a person, consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry; as, an act of attainder..
Suborned :: Subordinative (a.) Tending to subordinate; expressing subordination; used to introduce a subordinate sentence; as, a subordinative conjunction..
Sentence :: Sentence (v. t.) To utter sententiously.
Synclastic :: Synchysis (n.) A derangement or confusion of any kind, as of words in a sentence, or of humors in the eye..
Adjudication :: Adjudication (n.) A deliberate determination by the judicial power; a judicial decision or sentence.
Periodical :: Periodical (a.) Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence.
Parenthesis :: Parenthesis (n.) A word, phrase, or sentence, by way of comment or explanation, inserted in, or attached to, a sentence which would be grammatically complete without it. It is usually inclosed within curved lines (see def. 2 below), or dashes..
Bookish :: Bookish (a.) Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences..
Anticlimax :: Anticlimax (n.) A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect..
Foredoom :: Foredoom (n.) Doom or sentence decreed in advance.
Colon :: Colon (n.) A point or character, formed thus [:], used to separate parts of a sentence that are complete in themselves and nearly independent, often taking the place of a conjunction..
Connective :: Connective (n.) A word that connect words or sentences; a conjunction or preposition.
Polysyndeton :: Polysyndeton (n.) A figure by which the conjunction is often repeated, as in the sentence, We have ships and men and money and stores. Opposed to asyndeton..
Withal :: Withal (prep.) With; -- put after its object, at the end of sentence or clause in which it stands..
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