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especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.

To infect capital punishment on; to put to death in conformity to a legal sentence; as, to execute a traitor.

o efface designedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly; as, to expunge words, lines, or sentences.

A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence.

ss or mitigation of punishment; lenity. I could not discover the lenity and fabor of this sentence. Swift.

Doom or sentence decreed in advance. "A dread foredoom ringing in the ears of the guilty adult." Southey.

as advice, tidings, etc.; to pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a judgment, a sentence, a shout, etc.

A collection of, or a treatise on, maxims, grave sentences, or reflections. [Obs.] Milton.

According to the rules of grammar; grammatically correct; as, the sentence is not grammatical; the construction is not grammatical. -- Gram*mat"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Gram*mat"ic*al*ness, n.

which one form of a noun, verb, or pronoun, and the like, is used for another, as in the sentence: "What is life to such as me" Aytoun.

Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, -- as is the case in the aboriginal languages of America.

A figure in which the several parts of a sentence end with the same case, or inflection generally.

e thoughts in speech, or in writing, while the mind is occupied in the composition of the sentence. Carpenter.

Humiliating; degrading; as, an ignominious judgment or sentence. Macaulay.

As a term of disgrace, sometimes annexed to a sentence when an officer has been cashiered and rendered incapable of serving his country.

To imprint deeply; to impress; to stamp; as, to inscribe a sentence on the memory.

Increasing the force or intensity of; intensive; as, the intensitive words of a sentence. H. Sweet.

d or placed between the parts of another thing, as a clause inserted parenthetically in a sentence.

Having the power to prohibit; as, an interdictive sentence. Milton.

Exclamation. An interjection implies a meaning which it would require a whole grammatical sentence to expound, and it may be regarded as the rudiment of such a sentence. But it is a confusion of thought to rank it among the parts of speech. Earle. How now! interjections Why, then, some be of laughing, as, ah, ha, he! S…