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sententiary, n. (and a.) Hist.|sɛnˈtɛnʃɪərɪ|
[f. med.L. sententiāri-us (see below), f. L. sententia sentence n.: see -ary.]
A. n.
a. One who writes or utters sentences or aphorisms.
b. A compiler of ‘sentences’ or opinions of doctors of the Church on theological questions.
c. A commentator or lecturer on the Book of Sentences (see sentence n. 2 b).
a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 575 One of your owne, that lived about 170 yeares past, writing of your Sententiaries, alledgeth this place of the Apostle against them. 1629H. Burton Truth's Tri. 2 Their school⁓diuinitie, as Gabriel Biel, one of their chiefe Sententiaries.. hath laid it downe. 1662Hibbert Body Divinity i. 14 Using..the Fathers, Scholasticks, Sententiaries, Canonists. 1817Coleridge ‘Blessed are ye!’ Introd. 14 The inspired poets, historians and sententiaries of the Jews. 1882–3Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 2490/1 The prevailing scholasticism [15th c.] and the method of the sententiaries.
¶ erron. A sententious discourse.
1843Lytton Last Bar. ii. ii, It is easier to the warm heart of our cousin Warwick to preach sententiaries of sternness to his king, than to enforce the same by his own practice. Ibid. iii. vi, Though his sententiary as to nature and science lacked loyalty and respect.
B. adj. [Mod. as transl. of med.L. sententiarius.] Sententiary Bachelor, a bachelor of the second order of theology in the Middle Ages, whose office was to lecture on the Sentences of Peter Lombard.
1889in Century Dict. s.v. Bachelor.
So sententiˈarian, † senˈtentiarist = prec. n.
1677Owen Doctr. Justif. Introd. 8 It is..to no purpose to handle the mysteries of the Gospel as if Holcot and Bricot, Thomas and Gabriel, with all the Sententiarists, Summists, and Quodlibetarians,..were to be raked out of their Graves to be our guides. 1882Ogilvie, Sententiarian. |