Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Authoritatively binding or decisive.
- Of or pertaining to a-sentence, or series of words having grammatical completeness: as, a sentential pause; sentential analysis.
Wiktionary
- adj. of, related to, or comprised of sentences
- adj. of, or related to a sentence (period of time)
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Comprising sentences.
- adj. Of or pertaining to a sentence, or full period.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to a sentence
Examples
“To the same purpose we must, therefore, briefly also consider what is usually disputed about our own personal righteousness, with a justification thereon; as also what is called sentential justification at the day of judgment.”
“A very few words will also free our inquiry from any concernment in that which is called sentential justification, at the day of judgement; for of what nature soever it be, the person concerning whom that sentence is pronounced was, — (1.)”
“This leads a large number of people aware that there is no linguistic reason to avoid split infinitives (or singular they, or sentential hopefully, etc.) to still avoid using them for fear that someone of some importance will judge them harshly.”
Led astray by the no-split-infinitives fetish « Motivated Grammar
“Semantically, who (m) ever is the head of the sentential subject, so you might well expect the nominative case to manifest itself on who (m) ever, yielding an m-less whoever.”
“But within the sentential subject, who (m) ever is the object!”
“Importantly is also a valid sentential modifier, although oddly important is not.”
“The latter usage has been unreasonably derided, because it is a sentential adverb and it is a new meaning for an old word.”
“And even if it is, sentential most important is well-attested in the Oxford English Dictionary and on the Internet:”
“And I say “regularization” here only because sentence-modifying adjectives like most important (and most surprising) are outliers; most sentential-modifying phrases are adverbial.”
“(The last two sentential adverbs have been attested in the OED since 1717 and 1847, respectively.)”
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
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