n.
  - a set of words that is complete in itself, conveying a statement, question, exclamation, or command and typically containing a subject and predicate. 
▸Logic  a series of signs or symbols expressing a proposition in an artificial or logical language.
 - the punishment assigned to a defendant found guilty by a court.
 
v.
 declare the punishment decided for (an offender).
 
  Etymology
  ME (also in the sense ‘way of thinking, opinion’): via OFr. from L. sententia ‘opinion’.