to pass sentence on sb
1pass sentence upon — index judge, pronounce (pass judgment) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
2pass sentence — index adjudicate, award, decide, determine, rule (decide) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
3pass sentence on — index condemn (punish), convict Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
4pass sentence of death — give the death penalty, impose capital punishment …
5pass sentence upon — impose a penalty, give a punishment …
6Sentence — Sen tence, 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… …
7Pass — Pass, v. t. 1. In simple, transitive senses; as: (a) To go by, beyond, over, through, or the like; to proceed from one side to the other of; as, to pass a house, a stream, a boundary, etc. (b) Hence: To go from one limit to the other of; to… …
8sentence — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 group of words ADJECTIVE ▪ long, short ▪ Try to keep your sentences short. ▪ complete, whole ▪ broken …
9sentence — sen|tence1 W2S1 [ˈsentəns] n [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: Latin sententia feeling, opinion, sentence , from sentire; SENTIENT] 1.) a group of words that usually contains a subject and a verb, and expresses a complete idea. Sentences… …
10sentence — Synonyms and related words: Parthian shot, acquittal, act on, action, adage, address, adjectival phrase, adjudge, adjudicate, affirmation, allegation, ana, analects, anathematize, anathematizing, answer, aphorism, apostrophe, apothegm, article,… …
