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Sentence (v. t.) To decree or announce as a sentence.

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Recitation :: Recitation (n.) The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences.
Stop :: Stop (n.) A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See Punctuation..
Apodosis :: Apodosis (n.) The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clause which expresses a condition. Thus, in the sentence, Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, the former clause is the protasis, and the latter the apodosis..
Solecism :: Solecism (n.) An impropriety or incongruity of language in the combination of words or parts of a sentence; esp., deviation from the idiom of a language or from the rules of syntax..
Heterosis :: Heterosis (n.) A figure of speech by which one form of a noun, verb, or pronoun, and the like, is used for another, as in the sentence: What is life to such as me?.
Juise :: Juise (n.) Judgment; justice; sentence.
Read :: Read (v. t.) Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede..
Sentiment :: Sentiment (a.) A sentence, or passage, considered as the expression of a thought; a maxim; a saying; a toast..
Bookish :: Bookish (a.) Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences..
Decree :: Decree (n.) A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty..
Antanaclasis :: Antanaclasis (n.) A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc..
Sublinguae :: Sublineation (n.) A mark of a line or lines under a word in a sentence, or under another line; underlining..
Clause :: Clause (n.) A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document..
Syntaxis :: Syntax (n.) That part of grammar which treats of the construction of sentences; the due arrangement of words in sentences in their necessary relations, according to established usage in any language..
Sententious :: Sententious (a.) Comprising or representing sentences; sentential.
Vacancy :: Vacancy (n.) An open or unoccupied space between bodies or things; an interruption of continuity; chasm; gap; as, a vacancy between buildings; a vacancy between sentences or thoughts..
Sentence :: Sentence (n.) A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4..
Period :: Period (n.) The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word..
Palilogy :: Palilogy (n.) The repetition of a word, or part of a sentence, for the sake of greater emphasis; as, The living, the living, he shall praise thee..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim..
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