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senˈtentially, adv. Obs. or rare.
Also 5–6 sentencially, -yally.
[f. prec. (perh. not separately used until later) + -ly2, after med.L. sententiāliter.]
1. By way of (judicial) sentence; judicially.
c1400Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) ii. xliii. (1859) 50 To alle the remenaunt after, Iustice sentencyally seyd: goo, al ye condempned and foriuged to brenne withynne the fyre of Helle. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys, Agnes 262 Wherefore sentencyally I [the prefect] þe deuyse. c1460Osney Reg. 89, I axe þe saide Executours to þ⊇ forsaide best..to þe saide church of Cudelynton and to my lordis aforsaide..sentencially and diffinityfly to be condempned. 1544Bale Chron. Sir J. Oldcastle 39 We sentencyallye and dyffynytyuely by this present wrytynge, iudge, declare and condemne the seyd syr Iohan Oldecastell..a most pernycyouse and detestable heretyque. 1673Baxter Let. in Answ. Dodwell 83 Whether a man de facto have been drunk,..it were hard judging sententially meerly on trust from others. 1681J. Flavel Meth. Grace xxxii. 540 He is virtually condemned now, and will be sententially condemned in the judgment of the great day.
2. rare. In or by sentences.
1860Worcester (citing Coleridge), Sententially, by means of sentences. In later Dicts. |