4. A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw. Broome.
5. (Gram.)
Defn: A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4.
Note: Sentences are simple or compound. A simple sentence consists of one subject and one finite verb; as, "The Lord reigns." A compound sentence contains two or more subjects and finite verbs, as in this verse: - He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all. Pope. Dark sentence, a saving not easily explained. A king . . . understanding dark sentences. Dan. vii. 23.
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 sentenciously. [Obs.] Feltham.
SENTENCE METHOD
Sen"tence meth`od. (Education)
Defn: 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.