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a. [ Pref. bi- + centennial. ] 1. Consisting of two hundred years. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Occurring every two hundred years. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The two hundredth year or anniversary, or its celebration. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or relating to a hundred years. -- n. A person a hundred years old. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. centenarius, fr. centum a hundred. ] 1. Relating to, or consisting of, a hundred. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Occurring once in every hundred years; centennial. “Centenary solemnities.” Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Centenaries 1. The aggregate of a hundred single things; specifically, a century. “Every centenary of years.” Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A commemoration or celebration of an event which occurred a hundred years before. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. centum a hundred + annus year. ] 1. Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before; as, a centennial ode. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Happening once in a hundred years; as, centennial jubilee; a centennial celebration. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Lasting or aged a hundred years. [ 1913 Webster ]

That opened through long lines
Of sacred ilex and centennial pines. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The celebration of the hundredth anniversary of any event; a centenary. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Once in a hundred years. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Colorado; -- a nickname alluding to the fact that it was admitted to the Union in the centennial year, 1876. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F. double double + entendre to mean. This is a barbarous compound of French words. The true French equivalent is double entente. ] A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or indelicate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ F. entendre, fr. L. intendere. See Intend. ] To attend to; to apply one's self to. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To make tender. [ R. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To treat with tenderness. [ R. ] Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. ententif. ] Attentive; zealous. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lent. [ Obs. ] Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From OE. lenten lent. See Lent, n. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the fast called Lent; used in, or suitable to, Lent; as, the Lenten season. [ 1913 Webster ]

She quenched her fury at the flood,
And with a Lenten salad cooled her blood. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Spare; meager; plain; somber; unostentatious; not abundant or showy. “Lenten entertainment.” “ Lenten answer.” Shak. “ Lenten suit.” Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lenten color, black or violet. F. G. Lee. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The season of Lenten or Lent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Penta-. ] (Chem.) Same as Amylene. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to half of a century, or a period of fifty years; as, a semicentennial commemoration. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fiftieth anniversary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., from L. sententia, for sentientia, from sentire to discern by the senses and the mind, to feel, to think. See Sense, n., and cf. Sentiensi. ] 1. Sense; meaning; significance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Tales of best sentence and most solace. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (a) An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

My sentence is for open war. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

That by them [ Luther's works ] we may pass sentence upon his doctrines. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judicial tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases. [ 1913 Webster ]

Received the sentence of the law. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw. Broome. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Gram.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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: - [ 1913 Webster ]

He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dark sentence, a saying not easily explained. [ 1913 Webster ]

A king . . . understanding dark sentences. Dan. vii. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nature herself is sentenced in your doom. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To decree or announce as a sentence. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To utter sententiously. [ Obs. ] Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Education) 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 method and word method. See also phonics. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One who pronounced a sentence or condemnation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Comprising sentences; as, a sentential translation. Abp. Newcome. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to a sentence, or full period; as, a sentential pause. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a sentential manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sententiary. Barnas Sears (Life of Luther). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. sententiarius. ] One who read lectures, or commented, on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris (1159-1160), a school divine. R. Henry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being sententious. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a.[ L. sentenciosus: cf. F. sentencieux. ] 1. Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth. [ 1913 Webster ]

How he apes his sire,
Ambitiously sententious! Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Comprising or representing sentences; sentential. [ Obs. ] “Sententious marks.” Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Sen*ten"tious*ly, adv. -- Sen*ten"tious*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ter thirce + E. centenary. ] Including, or relating to, an interval of three hundred years. -- n. The three hundredth anniversary of any event; also, a celebration of such an anniversary. [ 1913 Webster ]