Sentencing

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

  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.
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              Nature herself is sentenced in your doom. --Dryden.
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     2. To decree or announce as a sentence. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     3. To utter sententiously. [Obs.] --Feltham.
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