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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sentence \Sen"tence\, verb (used with an object) [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.
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