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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,632 words match “SENT”

SENT v. 3 definitions

See Scent, v. & n. [Obs.] Spenser.

SENTENCE n. 9 definitions

Sense; meaning; significance. [Obs.] Tales of best sentence and most solace. Chaucer. The discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence. Milton.

SENTENCE METHOD n.

A method of teaching reading by giving first attention to phrases and sentences and later analyzing these into their verbal and alphabetic components; -- contrasted with alphabet and word methods.

One who pronounced a sentence or condemnation.

SENTENTIAL a. 2 definitions

Comprising sentences; as, a sentential translation. Abp. Newcome.

SENTENTIALLY adv.

In a sentential manner.

SENTENTIARIST n.

A sententiary. Barnas Sears (Life of Luther).

One who read lectures, or commented, on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris (1159-1160), a school divine. R. Henry.

SENTENTIOSITY n.

The quality or state of being sententious. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

SENTENTIOUS a. 2 definitions

Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth. How he apes his sire, Ambitiously sententious! Addison.

A sentry. [Obs.] Milton.

Scent. [Obs.] Holland.

SENTIENCE; SENTIENCY n.

The quality or state of being sentient; esp., the quality or state of having sensation. G. H. Lewes An example of harmonious action between the intelligence and the sentieny of the mind. Earle.

SENTIENT a. 2 definitions

faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues.

SENTIENTLY adv.

In a sentient or perceptive way.

SENTIMENT n. 4 definitions

respecting some person or thing; disposition prompting to action or expression. The word sentiment, agreeably to the use made of it by our best English writers, expresses, in my own opinion very happily, those complex determinations of the mind which result from the coöperation of our rational powers and of our moral…

SENTIMENTAL a. 3 definitions

Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic. [Obsoles.] Nay, ev'n each moral sentimental stroke, Where not the character, but poet, spoke, He lopped, as foreign to his chaste design, Nor spared a useless, though a golden line. Wh…

SENTIMENTALISM n.

The quality of being sentimental; the character or behavior of a sentimentalist; sentimentality.

SENTIMENTALIST n.

One who has, or affects, sentiment or fine feeling.

SENTIMENTALITY n.

The quality or state of being sentimental.