A particular and separate article, stipulation, or proviso, in any formal or legal document.

A very small part of a proposition, statement, or text; a clause or phrase; an article of a doctrinal statement. Now rare.

Transferred senses. In various uses, chiefly of material things and more or less technical: A projecting section of a building, e.g. the outworks of…

Rhetoric. A division or clause of a sentence or (occasionally) of a longer piece of text; a branch of a disjunctive proposition. Now rare.

a clause that is not subordinate to or dependent on any other, i.e. one which can form a complete sentence in isolation, having a subject and a…

In Ancient Greek Rhetoric and Ancient Greek Prosody, a member or section of a sentence or rhythmical period; hence in Palaeography, a clause or…