Synonyms:
clause
Meaning: (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Synonyms:
article, clause
Meaning: a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will)
Usage examples
The concluding clause was drawn in the form of a petition.
The clause which permitted scrupulous persons to communicate sitting very narrowly escaped the same fate.
I read my sentence steadily, Reviewed it with my eyes, To see that I made no mistake In its extremest clause, --
As the clause finally stood, the ministers of the Church were required to declare, not that they approved of her constitution, but merely that they submitted to it.
The first clause, as it stood when the bill was introduced, dispensed all the ministers of the Established Church from the necessity of subscribing the Thirty-nine Articles.
It does not appear that, in the debates on the Comprehension Bill, a single High Churchman raised his voice against the clause which relieved the clergy from the necessity of subscribing the Articles, and of declaring the doctrine contained in the Homilies to be sound.
But they insist that he must travel a little when he gets well--they recommend a short sea voyage, and they say he can be persuaded to try it if we continue to keep him in ignorance and promise to let him see L. as soon as he returns." The letter that bore the latest date of all, contained this clause:
This result was only reached, however, after a long and sometimes acrimonious struggle, in which Hamilton was on his feet day after day explaining and defending each separate clause of the Constitution,--not only in its real meaning, but against all the distorted constructions put upon it by the most acute and jealous of critics.
For the Articles was substituted a Declaration which ran thus; "I do approve of the doctrine and worship and government of the Church of England by law established, as containing all things necessary to salvation; and I promise, in the exercise of my ministry, to preach and practice according thereunto." Another clause granted similar indulgence to the members of the two universities.