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Sentence (n.) Sense; meaning; significance.

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Jaculatory :: "Jaculatory (a.) Darting or throwing out suddenly; also, suddenly thrown out; uttered in short sentences; ejaculatory; as, jaculatory prayers..
Grammatical :: Grammatical (a.) According to the rules of grammar; grammatically correct; as, the sentence is not grammatical; the construction is not grammatical..
Participle :: Participle (n.) A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare participles..
Protasis :: Protasis (n.) The introductory or subordinate member of a sentence, generally of a conditional sentence; -- opposed to apodosis. See Apodosis..
Declinatory :: Declinatory (a.) Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence..
Abjudication :: Abjudication (n.) Rejection by judicial sentence.
Suspension :: Suspension (n.) A stay or postponement of execution of a sentence condemnatory by means of letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.
Attainder :: Attainder (n.) The act of attainting, or the state of being attainted; the extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a person, consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry; as, an act of attainder..
Connective :: Connective (n.) A word that connect words or sentences; a conjunction or preposition.
Write :: Write (v. i.) To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs..
Quotable :: Quotable (a.) Capable or worthy of being quoted; as, a quotable writer; a quotable sentence..
Epigraph :: Epigraph (n.) A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto..
Convict :: Convict (n.) A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
Abjudicate :: Abjudicate (v. t.) To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge..
Which :: Which (pron.) A relative pronoun, used esp. in referring to an antecedent noun or clause, but sometimes with reference to what is specified or implied in a sentence, or to a following noun or clause (generally involving a reference, however, to something which has preceded). It is used in all numbers and genders, and was formerly used of persons..
Cadence :: Cadence (n.) A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at the end of a sentence..
Punctuate :: Punctuate (v. t.) To mark with points; to separate into sentences, clauses, etc., by points or stops which mark the proper pauses in expressing the meaning..
Motto :: Motto (n.) A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievment..
Antithesis :: Antithesis (n.) An opposition or contrast of words or sentiments occurring in the same sentence; as, The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself. He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen..
Key :: Key (n.) Fig: The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
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