(ˈ)sen|tenchəl adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin sententialis, from Latin sententia opinion, judgment, maxim + -alis -al
1. : containing or made up of sentences or maxims
a sentential book
a collection of sentential sayings
2. obsolete : of the nature of a judicial sentence
3.
a. : of or relating to a sentence or a syntactical sequence
and the sense of the poem as a whole, and of the sentential parts of it — V.C.Aldrich
b. : propositional