sententious

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SENTEN'TIOUS, adjective 1. Abounding with sentences, axioms and maxims; short and energetic; as a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth. How he apes his sire, Ambitiously sententious. Addison. 2. Comprising sentences; as sententious marks. [This should be sentential.]
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