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sentential, a.|sɛnˈtɛnʃəl|
[ad. L. sententiāl-is in the form of a sentence, f. sententia: see sentence n. and -al1.]
†1. Containing, or of the nature of, ‘sentences’ or ‘maxims’. Obs.
a1475Ashby Active Policy 51 Right so though I haue not seien scripture Of many bookes right sentenciall [etc.]. 1582T. Watson Centurie of Love lxxxix. (Arb.) 125 The two first staffes of this Sonnet are altogether sententiall, and euerie one verse of them is grownded vpon a diuerse reason and authoritie from the rest. 1645Ussher Body Div. (1647) 13 Containing principally..holy sentences, (whence also they may be called Sententiall).
2. a. Pertaining to a sentence or series of words in syntactical connexion.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. iv. 15 Verball expressions, or sententiall significations. 1775T. Sheridan Art of Reading 142 Of the accentual speech I have mentioned two kinds; one verbal, the other sentential. 1776Geddes Prosp. New Transl. Bible 127 My translation..is neither literal nor verbal; but, if I may use the term, strictly sentential. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 379 There are two sorts of [poetical] pauses, one for sense and one for melody, perfectly distinct from each other. The former may be called sentential, the latter, harmonic pauses. The sentential pauses are those which are known to us by the name of stops. 1956J. H. Greenberg in Saporta & Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 471/2 Sentential meaning. The meaning of a maximal linguistic structure (i.e., of a sentence). 1965N. Chomsky Aspects of Theory of Syntax ii. 100 Nouns with sentential Complements (such as ‘the idea that he might succeed’). 1978Studies in Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 96 They are excluded either by Ross's ‘rightward bounding constraint’ and ‘sentential subject constraint’, or by Chomsky's ‘subjacency condition’.
b. Logic. In collocations denoting logical operations relating to sentences or propositions; esp. as sentential calculus, sentential connective, sentential function. Cf. propositional a. b.
1937A. Smeaton tr. Carnap's Logical Syntax of Lang. iii. 91 Primitive sentences of the sentential calculus. Ibid. 138 Frege himself had already made a similar classification of all sentential functions into levels and kinds which also were arranged according to the kinds of their arguments. 1957P. Suppes Introd. Logic iii. 43 We have developed the logic of the sentential connectives. 1966Math. Reviews Jan. 7/1 The author presents a set of nine axiom schemes and two rules for the predicate calculus based on the infinite-valued sentential calculus of Lukasiewicz. 1976G. Evans in Evans & McDowell Truth & Meaning viii. 215 Intuitionistic sentential connectives cannot be regarded as representing truth functions in any finite many-valued logic. 1976A. R. Lacey Dict. Philos. 75 x is red can be called a propositional, statemental (rare) or sentential function, according as blood is red is regarded as a proposition, statement or sentence. Sentential functions are often called open sentences. The term closed sentential function is occasionally used of ordinary sentences.
3. Of the nature of a ‘sentence’ or final judicial decision. ? Obs.
a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 121 The judgement of the Church doth not hinder the sententiall iudgement of our Sauiour. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 441 Seazing on their money be a sententiall forfeiture. 1677Owen Doctr. Justif. iv. 186 No more is Justification the change of a person from inherent unrighteousness unto Righteousness, but a sentential Declaration of him to be Righteous. 1701Beverley Grand Apocal. Quest. 9 After the Words going forth there is the Epoch of the 70 Weeks Fix'd; and in the Wise Provision of the Holy Spirit, we have an Explanation,..of the Words going forth by the Decree, or Sentential Word of the God of Israel.
4. nonce-use. Pertaining to opinion.
1792D. Lloyd Charact. Men, etc. 22 Noisy discord and sentential strife. |