pass+sentence+upon

  • 121scrífan — 1 sv/t1 3rd pres scrífþ past scráf/scrifon ptp gescrifen to decree, appoint; 1. to decree to a person as his lot, to allot, assign, prescribe; 2. to fix as his lot for a person; 3. to decree after judgment, to adjudge, doom, inflict, impose,… …

    Old to modern English dictionary

  • 122send up —    to pass a prison sentence upon    The prisons of New York and New Orleans were upstream of the cities, and convicts were sent up the river or line of which this is a shortened, and confusing, form, meaning the same as send down1 …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 123judge — n 1. justice, magistrate, judicator, adjudicator, U.S. surrogate, Inf. his Honor, Islam. mullah, cadi; justice of the peace, Inf.J.P., circuit judge, Inf. circuit rider, judge of probate, police court judge, Supreme Court judge, Chief Justice;… …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • 124Incivile est, nisi tota sententia inspecta, de aliqua parta judicare — Unless the whole of a sentence has been examined, it is unfair to pass judgment upon any certain portion of it …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 125Sentenced — Sentence Sen tence, 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 …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 126Sentencing — Sentence Sen tence, 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 …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 127Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …

    Universalium

  • 128United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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