Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sententious"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sententious \Sen*ten"tious\, a.[L. sentenciosus: cf. F.
sentencieux.]
1. Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of
meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a
sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.
How he apes his sire, Ambitiously sententious!
--Addison.
2. Comprising or representing sentences; sentential. [Obs.]
``Sententious marks.'' --Grew. --- {Sen*ten"tious*ly},
adv. -- {Sen*ten"tious*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sententious
adj 1: abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing;
"too often the significant episode deteriorates into
sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes
2: concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments";
"the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which
Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen [syn: {pithy}]
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