资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

            Nature herself is sentenced in your doom. --Dryden.

   2. To decree or announce as a sentence. [Obs.] --Shak.

   3. To utter sententiously. [Obs.] --Feltham.