n. One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who absents one's self. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Good against dysentery. -- n. A medicine for dysentery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who assents. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. One who consents. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who disassents; a dissenter. [ Obs. ] State Trials (1634). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Disinter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who dissents; one who differs in opinion, or declares his disagreement. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) One who separates from the service and worship of an established church; especially, one who disputes the authority or tenets of the Church of England; a nonconformist. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dissenters from the establishment of their several countries. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Robert Brown is said to have the first formal dissenter. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ “The word is commonly applied only to Protestants. The Roman Catholics are generally referred to as a distinct class.” Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The spirit or principles of dissenters. Ed. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. dysentericus, Gr. &unr_;; cf. F. dysentérigue. ] Of or pertaining to dysentery; having dysentery; as, a dysenteric patient. “Dysenteric symptoms.” Copland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dysenteria, Gr. &unr_;; dys- ill, bad + &unr_;, pl. &unr_;, intestines, fr. 'ento`s within, fr. &unr_; in, akin to E. in: cf. F. dysenterie. See Dys, and In. ] (Med.) A disease attended with inflammation and ulceration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ When acute, dysentery is usually accompanied with high fevers. It occurs epidemically, and is believed to be communicable through the medium of the alvine discharges. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Within the mesentery; as, the intermesenteric, or aortic, plexus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. mésentérique. ] (Anat.) Pertaining to a mesentery; mesaraic. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Meso-, and Enteron. ] (Anat.) All that part of the alimentary canal which is developed from the primitive enteron and is lined with hypoblast. It is distinguished from the stomodaeum, a part at the anterior end of the canal, including the cavity of the mouth, and the proctodaeum, a part at the posterior end, which are formed by invagination and are lined with epiblast. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. mesente`rion, me`sos + 'e`nteron intestine: cf. F. mésentère. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Anat.) The membranes, or one of the membranes (consisting of a fold of the peritoneum and inclosed tissues), which connect the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum and ilium, the other mesenteries being called mesocaecum, mesocolon, mesorectum, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) One of the vertical muscular radiating partitions which divide the body cavity of Anthozoa into chambers. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To enter or insert wrongly, as a charge in an account. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who misrepresents. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Omphalo- + mesenteric. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the umbilicus and mesentery; omphalomesaraic; as, the omphalomesenteric arteries and veins of a fetus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. présenté, p. p. See Present, v. t. ] One to whom something is presented; also, one who is presented; specifically (Eccl.), one presented to benefice. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who presents. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who shows, exhibits, or describes. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A representative. [ Obs. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who resents. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., from L. sententia, for sentientia, from sentire to discern by the senses and the mind, to feel, to think. See Sense, n., and cf. Sentiensi. ] 1. Sense; meaning; significance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Tales of best sentence and most solace. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (a) An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

My sentence is for open war. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

That by them [ Luther's works ] we may pass sentence upon his doctrines. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judicial tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases. [ 1913 Webster ]

Received the sentence of the law. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw. Broome. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Gram.) A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Sentences are simple or compound. A simple sentence consists of one subject and one finite verb; as, “The Lord reigns.” A compound sentence contains two or more subjects and finite verbs, as in this verse: - [ 1913 Webster ]

He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dark sentence, a saying not easily explained. [ 1913 Webster ]

A king . . . understanding dark sentences. Dan. vii. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

. (Education) A method of teaching reading by giving first attention to phrases and sentences and later analyzing these into their verbal and alphabetic components; -- contrasted with alphabet method and word method. See also phonics. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One who pronounced a sentence or condemnation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Comprising sentences; as, a sentential translation. Abp. Newcome. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to a sentence, or full period; as, a sentential pause. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a sentential manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sententiary. Barnas Sears (Life of Luther). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. sententiarius. ] One who read lectures, or commented, on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris (1159-1160), a school divine. R. Henry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being sententious. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a.[ L. sentenciosus: cf. F. sentencieux. ] 1. Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth. [ 1913 Webster ]

How he apes his sire,
Ambitiously sententious! Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Comprising or representing sentences; sentential. [ Obs. ] “Sententious marks.” Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Sen*ten"tious*ly, adv. -- Sen*ten"tious*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sentry. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] Scent. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not assented; -- said specif. of stocks or bonds the holders of which refuse to deposit them by way of assent to an agreement altering their status, as in a readjustment. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]