Meanings
nounsententiary (plural sententiaries)
plural sententiaries
- Someone who studied, read lectures on, or made commentaries on, The Sentences by Peter Lombard.
arranged under a hundred and seventy-five heads, not exhibiting the consent of antiquity, which had been the aim of all preceding sententiary collectors
1874, John Henry Blunt, Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties, and Schools of Religious Thought
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Origin
- Latinsententiarius
- Englishsententiary
Latin sententiarius.
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sententiary. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sententiary
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