'Sentencing' definitions:

Definition of 'Sentencing'

From: GCIDE
  • Sentence \Sen"tence\, 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]