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单词 sententious
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sententiousadj.

Brit. /sɛnˈtɛnʃəs/, U.S. /sɛnˈtɛn(t)ʃəs/
Forms: Middle English sentencyowse, 1500s sentencyous(e, sentenci(o)us, sententius, sententiouse, 1500s– sententious.
Etymology: < Latin sententiōsus (Cicero), < sententia sentence n.: see -ous suffix. Compare French sentencieux, Old French sententieux (13th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter).
1. Full of meaning; also, of persons, full of intelligence or wisdom. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > [adjective]
keena1000
nimbleOE
wittya1100
smeighc1200
understandingc1200
aperta1330
skillwisea1340
witted1377
intelligiblea1382
well-feelinga1382
knowinga1398
finec1400
large?a1425
well-knowingc1425
of understanding1428
capax1432
sententiousc1440
well-wittedc1450
intellectual?a1475
clean1485
industriousc1487
intellective1509
cleanlyc1540
ingenious?a1560
fine-headed1574
conceited1579
conceitful1594
intelligenced1596
dexter1597
ingenuous1598
intelligent1598
senseful1598
parted1600
thinking1605
dexterical1607
solert1612
apprehensivea1616
dexterous1622
solertic1623
intelligential1646
callent1656
cunning1671
thoughtful1674
perceptive1696
clever1716
uptaking1756
spiritual1807
bright1815
gnostic1819
knowledgeable1825
brainy1845
opulent1851
opening1872
super-cerebral1916
brainiac1976
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > high significance, expressiveness > [adjective]
sententiousc1440
pregnant?a1475
significant1566
senseful1596
mattery1602
significative1639
expressive1690
meaning1726
voluminous1804
meaningful1852
eloquent1870
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 453/1 Sentencyowse, or full of sentence, sentenciosus.
?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. aa.iiiv O vertuous Lydgat moche sentencyous.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xiv. 53 The boke of fame, whiche is sentencyous He [Chaucer] drewe hym selfe.
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid vi. Prol. 75 He is ane hie theolog sentencius.
1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Nov. 83 Gloss. This is a notable and sententious comparison.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 3 Your reasons at Dinner haue been sharpe & sententious . View more context for this quotation
1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman vi. 43 Let your stile..bee..sententious, yea better furnished with sentences then words.
1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 32 Teares have Tongues..Sententious showers, ô let them fall.
2. Of the nature of a ‘sentence’ or aphoristic saying.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > [adjective]
sententiala1475
sententious1542
topic1581
apophthegmatical?1589
topical1594
adagial1647
aphoristical1661
gnomonic1706
axiomatical1738
gnomologic1751
aphoristic1753
maximical1779
apophthegmatic1796
aphorismic1798
gnomic1815
aphorismatic1822
axiomatic1835
maximic1854
aphorismical1880
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes (title) Apophthegmes that is to saie, prompte, quicke, wittie and sentencious saiynges, of certain Emperours [etc.].
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 261 Brief sententious precepts. View more context for this quotation
1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 205. ⁋1 Sometimes [he] uttered grave reflections, and sententious maxims.
1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. III. 285 The depth of sentiment was contracted into sententious epigrams.
1908 Q. Rev. Apr. 341 Many sententious and quasi-proverbial lines are ascribed to him [Menander].
3. Of discourse, style, etc.: Abounding in pointed maxims, aphoristic. In recent use sometimes in bad sense, affectedly or pompously formal.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > [adjective] > abounding in
sententious1509
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) viii. 29 To make of nought, reason sentencious, Clokynge a trouthe wyth colour tenebrous.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 377 His grace..in speakinge..was pleasaunt, and yet graue:..sententious, and yet familiar.
1623 T. Gataker Wife in Deed 1 in Good Wife Gods Gift It hath this preeminence aboue most, if not all, the Bookes in the Bible; that many of them are Sententious, this consisteth all of Sentences. For what are Diuine Prouerbs, but select and choise Sentences.
1681 T. Dineley Jrnl. Tour Ireland in Trans. Kilkenny Archæol. Soc. 2nd Ser. 2 22 [The Irish language] is sharp and sententious, with quick apothegmes, and proper allusions.
1747 P. Doddridge Some Remarkable Passages Life Col. J. Gardiner 175 [He] only replied, in his Sententious Manner, ‘We have an Eternity to spend together’.
1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Brutus in Plutarch Lives ⁋4 In Greek he affected the sententious and laconic way [of speaking].
1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. vi. i. 224 The truth of this speech palliating it's sententious absurdity, made Cecilia give up her faint attempt to soften him.
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. l. 187 Their wit [was] strong and sententious.
1833 T. B. Macaulay War Succession in Spain in Ess. ⁋3 Lord Mahon is also a little too fond of uttering moral reflections in a style too sententious and oracular.
1850 W. Irving Mahomet (1853) xxxix. 192 His ordinary discourse was grave and sententious.
1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! I. ii. 42 A long sententious letter, full of Latin quotations.
1858 G. MacDonald Phantastes 86 The sententious remarks of a pompous child.
1883 Fortn. Rev. Feb. 260 A person of gentlemanly bearing, small abilities, and sententious wisdom.
4. Of persons: Given to the utterance of maxims or pointed sayings. Now often in bad sense, addicted to pompous moralizing.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > [adjective] > given to uttering
gnomical1604
sententious1609
aphorisming1641
1609 B. Jonson Case is Alterd i. sig. C2 Come you are so sententious my Lord. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. iv. 62 By my faith, he is very swift, and sententious . View more context for this quotation
1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 9 This indifferencie towards Fortune, is excellently described by the sententious Seneca.
1700 W. Congreve Way of World ii. i. 29 Sententious Mirabell! Prithee don't look with that violent and inflexible wise Face.
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. ii. vii. 86 Sallust was a sententious Pedant.
1796 F. Burney Camilla V. ix. v. 114 You grow so horrid sententious.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. Introd. p. xiv The Marquis de Hautlieu..was as short and sententious as French politeness permitted.
1880 M. E. Braddon Just as I Am xxxvi He was a sententious person.
5. Of a symbol: Expressive of a whole sentence; opposed to verbal. Obsolete.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [adjective] > relating to a sentence > expressive of a whole sentence
sententious1586
1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 149 The matter whereof these armes do consist is the same that the auncient Hieroglyphiques weare with the Ægiptians, or the sententious Emblemes to the Greekes.
1701 N. Grew Cosmol. Sacra ii. vi. §82 The making of those Figures being tedious..put Men first upon contracting them..instead of Sententious Marks, to think of Verbal; such as the Chineses still retain.
6. Of composition: Consisting of detached sentences. Obsolete.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [adjective] > relating to a sentence > consisting of detached sentences
sententious1770
1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 250 The first word of a new paragraph..is commonly put in Small Capitals... But this rule may be very well laid aside in matter which is too sententious and which would take up more Small Capitals than an ordinary..Fount could supply.
1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 386 Others are so sententious in their writing that they break off almost at every place that will admit of a Full-point.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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