Of or pertaining to the senses, or sensible objects; addressing the senses; suggesting pictures or images of sense.

imp. p. p. of Send.

To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.

One who pronounced a sentence or condemnation.

Comprising sentences; as, a sentential translation.

In a sentential manner.

A sententiary.

One who read lectures, or commented, on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris (1159-1160), a school divine.

The quality or state of being sententious.

Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.

A sentry.

Scent.

The quality or state of being sentient; esp., the quality or state of having sensation.

One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.

In a sentient or perceptive way.

A thought prompted by passion or feeling; a state of mind in view of some subject; feeling toward or respecting some person or thing; disposition prompting to action or expression.

Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic.

The quality of being sentimental; the character or behavior of a sentimentalist; sentimentality.

One who has, or affects, sentiment or fine feeling.

The quality or state of being sentimental.

To think or act in a sentimental manner, or like a sentimentalist; to affect exquisite sensibility.

In a sentimental manner.

A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer.

To watch over like a sentinel.

Painful vivisection; -- opposed to callisection.

A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.

Without; as, senza stromenti, without instruments.

A leaf or division of the calyx.

Having one or more sepals.

Relating to, or having the nature of, sepals.

The metamorphosis of other floral organs into sepals or sepaloid bodies.

Like a sepal, or a division of a calyx.

Having, or relating to, sepals; -- used mostly in composition. See under Sepal.

Quality of being separable or divisible; divisibility; separableness.

Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided; as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist.

Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected.

Of or pertaining to separatism in religion; schismatical.

Designed or employed to separate.

The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate. Chemical analysis. Divorce. The operation of removing water from steam.

The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing.

One who withdraws or separates himself; especially, one who withdraws from a church to which he has belonged; a seceder from an established church; a dissenter; a nonconformist; a schismatic; a sectary.

Of or pertaining to separatists; characterizing separatists; schismatical.

Causing, or being to cause, separation.

One who, or that which, separates. A device for depriving steam of particles of water mixed with it. An apparatus for sorting pulverized ores into grades, or separating them from gangue. An instrument used for spreading apart the threads of the warp in the loom, etc.

An apparatus used in separating, as a separating funnel.

The decimal point; the dot placed at the left of a decimal fraction, to separate it from the whole number which it follows. The term is sometimes also applied to other marks of separation.

See Supawn.

Admitting of burial.

Burial.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Jews (the Sephardim, also called Spanish or Portuguese Jews) descended from Jewish families driven from Spain by the Inquisition.

Jews who are descendants of the former Jews of Spain and Portugal. They are as a rule darker than the northern Jews, and have more delicate features.

A large sting ray of the genus Trygon, especially Trygon sephen of the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. The skin is an article of commerce.

Of a dark brown color, with a little red in its composition; also, made of, or done in, sepia.

Of or pertaining to sepia; done in sepia; as, a sepic drawing.

Like or pertaining to the cuttlefishes of the genus Sepia.

Something that separates; a hedge; a fence.

Meerschaum. See Meerschaum.

The bone or shell of cuttlefish. See Illust. under Cuttlefish.

See Supawn.

To set apart.

The act of setting aside, or of giving up.

A native of India employed as a soldier in the service of a European power, esp. of Great Britain; an Oriental soldier disciplined in the European manner.

Same as Hara-kiri.

A soluble poison (ptomaine) present in putrid blood. It is also formed in the putrefaction of proteid matter in general.

The poisoning of the system by the introduction of putrescent material into the blood.

A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; -- used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland.

Septicaemia.

Of or pertaining to a septum or septa, as of a coral or a shell.

See Heptane.

A figure which has seven angles; a heptagon.

Heptagonal.

A flattened concretionary nodule, usually of limestone, intersected within by cracks which are often filled with calcite, barite, or other minerals.

Divided by partition or partitions; having septa; as, a septate pod or shell.

The ninth month of the year, containing thurty days.

A Setembrist.

An agent in the massacres in Paris, committed in patriotic frenzy, on the 22d of September, 1792.

Flowing sevenfold; divided into seven streams or currents.

Divided nearly to the base into seven parts; as, a septempartite leaf.

Septentrion.

One of a board of seven men associated in some office.

The office of septemvir; a government by septimvirs.

The number seven.

Having parts in sevens; heptamerous.

A period of seven years; as, the septennate during which the President of the French Republic holds office.

Lasting or continuing seven years; as, septennial parliaments.

Once in seven years.

Septentrional.

The constellation Ursa Major.

The north or northern regions.

Of or pertaining to the north; northern.

Northerliness.

Northerly.

To tend or point toward the north; to north.

A set of seven persons or objects; as, a septet of singers.

A European herb, the tormentil. See Tormentil.

A substance that promotes putrefaction.

A poisoned condition of the blood produced by the absorption into it of septic or putrescent material; blood poisoning. It is marked by chills, fever, prostration, and inflammation of the different serous membranes and of the lungs, kidneys, and other organs.

Having power to promote putrefaction.

In a septic manner; in a manner tending to promote putrefaction.

Dividing the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.

Tendency to putrefaction; septic quality.

Turned in seven different ways.

Conveying putrid poison; as, the virulence of septiferous matter.

Flowing in seven streams; septemfluous.

Having seven leaves.

Having the form of a septum.

Breaking from the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which the valves of a pod break away from the partitions, and these remain attached to the common axis.

Having seven sides; as, a septilateral figure.

According to the French method of numeration (which is followed also in the United States), the number expressed by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. According to the English method, the number expressed by a unit with forty-two ciphers annexed. See Numeration.

A group of seven notes to be played in the time of four or six.

Consisting of seven islands; as, the septinsular republic of the Ionian Isles.

A word of seven syllables.

See Heptoic.

Of or pertaining to the nasal septum and the maxilla; situated in the region of these parts. A small bone between the nasal septum and the maxilla in many reptiles and amphibians.

A person who is seventy years of age; a septuagenary.

Consisting of seventy; also, seventy years old. A septuagenarian.

The third Sunday before Lent; -- so called because it is about seventy days before Easter.

Consisting of seventy days, years, etc.; reckoned by seventies.

A Greek version of the Old Testament; -- so called because it was believed to be the work of seventy (or rather of seventy-two) translators.

Something composed of seven; a week.