Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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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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