Definition of "phrases" []

• Plural form of phrase. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of phrase. (verb)

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• "Form _infinitive phrases_ from the following verbs, and use these phrases as _adjectives, adverbs_, and _nouns_, in sentences of your own building."
• "Hence they combine whole phrases more than words -- _phrases banales_."
• "_fugitive phrases_, which are the cant of ordinary discourse, just as tragedy phrases, _dead idioms, _ and exaggerations of dignity, are of the artificial style, and yeas, verilys, and exaggerations of simplicity, are of the natural. -- p. xvi."