sentential

1. not comparablehuman sciencesRelating to a sentence.

plural sententials

1. A portion of a sentence or utterance that could act on its own as a complete sentence.

   Near-synonym: clause

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   Furthermore, children demonstrated that they understood the mapping by elaborating phrasals to sententials, and reducing sententials to phrasals when imitating.

   1985, Dan Isaac Slobin, The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition, page 105

   Scientific, moral, and penal laws are formally universal, sentential propositions. Austin noted the requirement that the commands or expression of desire be general. Han Feizi never restricts faˢᵗᵃⁿᵈᵃʳᵈˢ to either sententials or universal sententials. His account is notoriously about mingⁿᵃᵐᵉ and xingᵖᵘⁿⁱˢʰᵐᵉⁿᵗ.

   2000, Chad Hansen, A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought, page 349

   Synonyms: clause