PHRASE is sometimes also used for a short sentence or small set or circuit of words constructed together. In this sense, Father Buffier divides phrases into complete and incomplete.
Phrases are complete where there is a noun and a verb, each in its proper function; i. e. where the noun expresses a subject, and the verb the thing affirmed of it.
Incomplete phrases are those where the noun and the verb together only do the office of a noun; consisting of several words without affirming any thing, and which might be expressed in a single word. Thus, that which is true, is an incomplete phrase, which might be expressed in one word, truth; as, that which is true satisfies the mind, i. e. truth satisfies the mind.