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(obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.
* Milton
(obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking.
* Milton
* Atterbury
(dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.
The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
* 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,
A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
(obsolete) A saying, especially form a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
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*:Men (saith an ancient Greek sentence ) are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not by things themselves.
(grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop.
(logic) A formula with no free variables.
(computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.
* Dryden
* 1900', , Chapter I,
(obsolete) To decree or announce as a sentence.
(obsolete) To utter sententiously.
A large quantity or number; a great deal.
* W. Black
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, title= A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
(informal) A number of people taken collectively.
A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
* Kent
That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
* Spenser
Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
* Bible, Proverbs xvi. 33
* Shakespeare
The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
* Milton
* Alexander Pope
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A prize in a lottery.
Allotment; lottery.
* 1990 : (Donald Kagan), Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy , chapter 2: “Politician”, page 40 (Guild Publishing; 2239)
All members of a set; everything.
An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.
(dated) To allot; to sort; to apportion.
(US, informal, dated) To count]] or [[reckon on, reckon (on'' or ''upon ).
Sentence is a related term of lot.
As a noun sentence
is (obsolete) sense; meaning; significance.As a verb sentence
is to declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.As a proper noun lot is
a nephew of abraham in the bible and quran.sentence
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(wikipedia sentence)Noun
(en noun)- The discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence .
- My sentence is for open war.
- By them [Luther's works] we may pass sentence upon his doctrines.
- The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second.
- The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous cattle rustler.
- The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence .
- (Broome)
- The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard.
Synonyms
* verdict * convictionHypernyms
* (logic) formulaVerb
- The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine.
- Nature herself is sentenced in your doom.
- The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.
- (Shakespeare)
- (Feltham)
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Noun
(en noun)- He wrote to her he might be detained in London by a lot of business.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
- The defendants leased a house and lot in the city of New York.
- But save my life, which lot before your foot doth lay.
- The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.
- If we draw lots , he speeds.
- O visions ill foreseen! Each day's lot's / Enough to bear.
- He was but born to try / The lot of man — to suffer and to die.
- as Jones alone was discovered, the poor lad bore not only the whole smart, but the whole blame; both which fell again to his lot on the following occasion.
- (Evelyn)
- The Greeks expected their leaders to show physical courage, whether in the athletic arena or in battle, as well as piety, generosity, and nobility. Cimon had risen to power chiefly because of his military prowess, and any rival must be able to show at least honorable service and military competence. By this time, moreover, the generals were coming to be the most important political figures in Athens. Archons served only for one year and, since 487/6, they were chosen by lot . Generals, on the other hand, were chosen by direct election and could be reelected without limit.
- The table was loaded with food, but by evening there was nothing but crumbs; we had eaten the lot .