Home › Words › S › sententiarysententiarysententiary means one who read lectures, or commented, on the Sentences of Peter Lombard.EtymologyLatin sententiarius.nounOne who read lectures, or commented, on the Sentences of Peter Lombard.e.g.“arranged under a hundred and seventy-five heads, not exhibiting the consent of antiquity, which had been the aim of all preceding sententiary collectors” — 1874, John Henry Blunt, Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties, and Schools of Religious Thought:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).