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SENTINEL, or SENTRY

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 649 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SENTINEL, or SENTRY , a guard or See also:watch, a soldier posted at a particular spot to See also:challenge all corners, passing those who give a See also:countersign, and refusing those who do not, and giving alarm in See also:case of attack. The See also:etymology has been the subject of much controversy. The See also:original word seems to be Ital. sentinella, adapted as Fr. sentinelle (the See also:modern See also:French military See also:term is factionnaire, and the Ger. Fachmann). For the See also:Italian word the source has been suggested in sentire, to perceive, but there are philological objections to this, and more plausibility attaches to a connexion with sentina, the See also:bilge-See also:water in a See also:ship, figuratively See also:rabble, See also:camp-followers. If an Italian origin, as agreed on by most authorities, be set aside, the French word suggests a more appropriate formation as the diminutive of sentier, path, See also:Lat. semita, meaning properly the sentry's See also:beat. The O.

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