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sententiary

sententiary noun: someone who studied, read lectures on, or made commentaries on, The Sentences by Peter Lombard.

Noun

sententiary (plural sententiaries)

  1. 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 collectors1874, John Henry Blunt, Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties, and Schools of Religious Thought

Forms of sententiary

pluralsententiaries

Origin of sententiary

Latin sententiarius.

Questions about sententiary

What does sententiary mean?
Sententiary means someone who studied, read lectures on, or made commentaries on, The Sentences by Peter Lombard.
What part of speech is sententiary?
Sententiary is a noun.
What is the plural of sententiary?
The plural of sententiary is sententiaries.

Words near sententiary in the dictionary

  1. sententiarian
  2. sententiarians
  3. sententiaries
  4. sententiarist
  5. sententiarists
  6. sententiary
  7. sententiosities
  8. sententiosity
  9. sententious
  10. sententiously
  11. sententiousness

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