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wing apace downward; and finding the ease she had from 
her visible and sensuous colleague the body, in performance 
of religious duty, her pinions now broken and flagging, 
shifted off from herself the labour of high soaring any more. 
Milton. —Harmonious, or appealing to the sense.—To this 
poetry would be made precedent, as being less subtile and 
fine; but more simple, sensuous and passionate. Milton. 
SENT. The participle passive of send. 
SE'NTENCE, s. [sentence , Fr., sententia, Lat.] De¬ 
termination or decision, as of a judge civil or criminal.—If 
matter of fact breaks out with too great an evidence to be 
denied, why, still there are other lenitives, that friendship 
will apply, before it will be brought to the decretory rigours 
of a condemning sentence. South. —It is usually spoken 
of condemnation pronounced by the judge; doom.—By the 
consent of all laws, in capital causes, the evidence must be 
full and clear; and if so, where one man’s life is in question, 
what say we to a war, which is ever the sentence of death 
upon many? Bacon. —A maxim; an axiom, generally 
moral.—An excellent spirit, knowledge, understanding, and 
shewing of hard sentences were found in Daniel. Dan .— 
A sentence may be defined a moral instruction couched in a 
few words. Broome. —A short paragraph; a period in 
writing.—A simple sentence has but one subject and one 
finite verb: a compounded sentence has more than one 
subject or one finite verb, either expressed or understood; 
or it consists of two or more simple sentences connected to¬ 
gether. Lowth. 
To SE'NTENCE, v. a. [sentencier, Fr.] To pass the 
last judgment on any one. 
After this cold considerance, sentence me; 
And, as you are a king, speak in your state. 
What I have done that misbecame my place. Shahspeare^ 
To condemn; to doom to punishment.—Idleness, sen¬ 
tenced by the decurions, was punished by so many stripes. 
Temple. —To relate, or express, in a short and energetic 
way. Unused. —The best way for speech, is to be short, 
plain, material. Let me hear one wise man sentence it, 
rather than twenty fools, garrulous in their lengthened tale. 
Felt ham. 
SENTE'NTIAL, adj. Comprising sentences.—Dr. Ged- 
des is an advocate for a translation, which is not literal or 
verbal, but “ sentential-," that is, where every sentence 
of the English corresponds as exactly to the Hebrew as the 
difference of the two idioms will permit. Abp. Newcome. 
SENTENTIO'SITY, s. Comprehension in a sentence. 
Unused. —Vulgar precepts in morality carry with them no¬ 
thing above the line, or beyond the extemporary sententio- 
sity of common conceits with us. Brown. 
SENTE'NTIOUS, adj. \sentencieux, Fr.] Abounding 
with sentences, axioms and maxims, short and energetic.— 
He is very swift and sententious. Shahspeare. 
Eloquence, with all her pomp and charms, 
Foretold us useful and sententious truths. Waller. 
Comprising sentences.—The making of figures being te¬ 
dious, and requiring much room, put men first upon con¬ 
tracting them ; as by the most ancient Egyptian monuments 
it appears they did : next, instead of sententious marks, to 
think of verbal, such as the Chinese still retain. Grew. 
SENTE'NTIOUSLY, adv. In short sentences; with 
striking brevity.—They describe her in part finely and ele¬ 
gantly, and in part gravely and sententiously: they say, 
look how many feathers she hath, so many eyes she hath un¬ 
derneath. Bacon. 
SENTE'NTIOUSNESS, s. Pithiness of sentences; bre¬ 
vity with strength.—The Medea I esteem for the gravity 
and sententiousness of it, which he himself concludes to be 
suitable to a tragedy. Dryden. 
SENTER HARBOUR, a cove in the north-west part of 
Lake Winnipisegee. 
SE'NTERY, s. [This is commonly written sentry, 
corrupted from sentinel. ] One who is set to watch in a 
garrison, or in the outlines of an army. 
SEN 
What strength, what art can then 
Suffice, or what evasion bear him safe 
Through the strict senteries, and stations thick 
Of angels watching round ? Milton. 
SE'NTIENT, adj. [sehtiens, Lat.] Perceiving; having 
perception.—This acting of the sentient phantasy is per¬ 
formed by a presence of sense, as the horse is under the sense 
of hunger, and that without any formal syllogism presseth 
him to eat. Hale. 
SE'NTIENT, s. He that has perception —If the sen¬ 
tient be carried, passibus cequis, with the body, whose 
motion it would observe, supposing it regular, the remove 
is insensible. Glanville. 
SE'NTIMENT s. [sentiment , Fr.] Opinion ; properly 
on moral topics; but it has been carelessly used for any 
opinion.—The consideration of the reason, why they are 
annexed to so many other ideas, serving to give us due 
sentiments of the wisdom and goodness of the sovereign 
Disposer of all things, may not be unsuitable to the main end 
of these inquiries. Locke. 
Alike to council or the assembly came, 
With equal souls and sentiments the same. Pope. 
A striking sentence in a composition.—Those who could no 
longer defend the conduct of Cato, praised the sentiments. 
Dennis. —Sensibility ; feeling.—He pretends to and recom¬ 
mends sentiment and liberality; but I know him to be artful, 
close and malicious: in short, a sentimental knave. Sheridan. 
SENTIME'NTAL, adj. Abounding with sentiment; 
affecting sensibility, in a contemptuous sense.—Shall we 
imitate the sentimental and deep-searching Barrow ? Lang- 
horne. —Petrarch has described the perplexities of a lover's 
mind, and his struggles betwixt hope and despair, a sub¬ 
ject most fertile of sentimental complaint, by a combination 
of contrarieties; a species of wit highly relished by the 
Italians. Warton. 
SENTIMENTALITY, s. Affectation of fine feeling or 
equisite sensibility.—She has even the false pity and senti¬ 
mentality of many modern-ladies. Warton. 
SE'NTINEL, s. [ sentinel/e , Fr. from scntio, Lat.] One 
who watches or keeps guard to prevent surprise. 
Norfolk, hie thee to thy charge; 
Use careful watch, chuse trusty sentinels. Shahspeare. 
First, the two eyes, which have the seeing power. 
Stand as one watchman, spy, or sentinel. 
Being plac’d aloft, within the head’s high tow’r; 
And though both see, yet both but one thing tell. Davies. 
SENTINEL, Great, an island in the Eastern seas, about 
10 miles in circumference ; 20 miles south-west from the 
Greater Andaman. Lat. 11. 36. N. long. 92. 40. E. 
SENTINEL, Little, a small island in the Eastern seas; 
about 8 miles from the Little Andaman. Lat. 10. 59. N. 
long. 92. 23. E. 
SENTINO, a small river of Italy, in the Ecclesiastical 
States, which rises in the duchy of Urbino, and falls into 
the Esino. 
SENT1PAC, the capital of a district of the same name, in 
the kingdom of Mexico, and intendancy of Guadalaxara. 
Its population consists of 58 families of Spaniards, mulattoes, 
and a mixed race of both, and 105 Indians. 
SENTOU, a town of China, of the third rank, in Set- 
cliuen, on the river Kincha. 
SE'NTRY, s. [corrupted from sentinel.] A watch or 
sentinel. 
One goose they had, ’twas all they could allow, 
A wakeful sentry, and on duty now. Dryden. 
Guard; watch; the duty of a sentry. 
Here toils and death, and death’s half-brother, sleep. 
Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep. Dryden. 
SENURIS, a village of Fayoum, in Egypt, near the Bir- 
ket il Cairun. 
SENZARSKAIA, a fortress of Asiatic Russia, in the go¬ 
vernment of Tobolsk; 80 miles south of Yalutorousk. 
SEODA, 
