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senˈtentiously, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
†1. According to the sense; not word for word (of a translation). Obs. rare—1.
c1450Godstow Reg. 26 A pore brodur and welwyller..hath purposed wyth goddys grace to make..fro latyn in-to englyssh, sentencyosly, as foloweth thys symple translacion.
2. In a sententious manner; tersely and pithily.
1481Caxton Tulle of Old Age i. (R. Suppl.), The sayd versis of the grete poete be of grete effect, purposed sentencyously in few wordis. 1513Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 3196 But as Salomon sayth sententiously, ‘There may be no counseyll power ne prudence [etc.]’. 1622Peacham Compl. Gent. x. 89 Iuvenal of Satyrists is the best, for..though he be sententiously tart, yet is his phrase cleare and open. 1716–17Bentley Serm. xi. 372 Our Apostle concludes the whole with the words above, sententiously in way of Aphorism. 1862Goulburn Pers. Relig. 103 If the time which we can spare for such reading is short, books of thoughts, more or less sententiously expressed..will be found very serviceable. 1884F. M. Crawford Rom. Singer I. 31 ‘Who goes slowly goes surely’, said the maestro sententiously. |