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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Pa-rä', n. p. 945A piece of Turkish money, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one fourth of a cent.Pär'ä p. 945Prefix fr. the Gr., meaning beside, beyond.Pär'a-ble, a. p. 945Easily procured. [Obs.] Browne.Păr'a-ble, n. p. 945A fable or allegorical relation or representation of something real in life or nature, from which a moral is drawn for instruction. Syn.—See APOLOGUE.Pär'a-ble, v. t. p. 945To represent by fiction or fable. [Rare.] Milton.Pā-răb'o-lă, n. p. 945(Geom.) (a.) A curve, one of the conic sections, formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant…Pā-răb'o-le, n. p. 945(Rhet.) Similitude; comparison.Păr'a-bŏl'ic or Păr'a-bŏl'ic-al, a. p. 945Expressed by parable or allegorical representation; as, parabolical instruction or description. 2. [From parabola.] (Geom.) (a.) Having the form or nature of a parabola; pertaining to, or resembling…Păr'a-bŏl'ie-al-ly, adv. p. 945By way of parable. 2. In the form of a parabola.Pär'-a-bŏl'-i-fōrm, a. p. 945Resembling a parabola in form.Pa-rāb'o-lĭsm, n. p. 945(Alg.) The division of the terms of an equation by a known quantity that is involved or multiplied in the first term. [Obs.]Pa-răb'o-list, n. p. 945A writer or narrator of parables.Pa-räb'o-loid, n. p. 945(Geom.) The solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis; a parabolic conoid. Brande. ☞ The term paraboloid has sometimes been applied also to the parabolas of the higher orders.…Pär'a-bo-loid'al, a. p. 945Pertaining to, or resembling, a paraboloid.Pär'a-çĕl'si-an, n. p. 945A physician who follows the practice of Paracelsus, a Swiss physician of celebrity, who lived at the close of the fifteenth century. Ferrand.Pär'/a-çel'si-an, a. p. 945Belonging or relating to Paracelsus or his practice. Hakewill.Pär'a-çël'sist, n. p. 945A Paracelsian.Pär'a-çen-tē'sis, n. p. 945(Surg.) The perforation of a cavity of the body with a trocar, lancet, or other suitable instrument, for the evacuation of an effused fluid.Păr'a-çēn'tric or Păr'a-çēn'tric-al, a. p. 945Deviating from circularity; changing the distance from a center. Paracentric curve (Math.), a curve having the property that, when its plane is placed vertically, a body descending along it, by the…Pa-răch'ro-nĭsm, n. p. 946An error in chronology, by which the date of an event is made later than it was in reality.Păr'a-chrōse, a. p. 946(Min.) Changing color by exposure to the weather. Mohs.Păr'a-chute, n. p. 946A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which any thing may be sent down from a balloon without danger of too rapid motion.Păr'a-clēte, n. p. 946An advocate; one called to aid or support; hence, the Consoler, Comforter, or Intercessor; — a term applied to the Holy Spirit.Păr'a-clōse, n. p. 946(Eccl. Arch.) A screen separating a chapel from the body of a church. Hook.Păr'a-crōs'tic, n. p. 946A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, all the letters which commence the remaining verses of the poem. [Rare.] Brande.Păr/a-cȳ-ăn’ō-gen, n. p. 946(Chem.) A brownish-black insoluble substance, which remains after the decomposition of the cyanide of mercury by heat. It is apparently isomeric with cyanogen. Silliman.Pa-rāde', n. p. 946Pompous exhibition; display; ostentation; show. Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade. Swift. 2. Especially, military display; the assembly and orderly arrangement of troops for show…Pa-rāde', v. t. p. 946To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off; to make a spectacle of. 2. To assemble and array or marshal in military order; as, to parade troops.Pa-rāde', v. i. p. 946To go about for show. 2. To assemble and be marshaled in military order; to go about in military procession.Păr'a-dīgm, n. p. 946An example; a model. [Obs. and rare.] Those ideas in the divine understanding being looked upon by these philosophers as the paradigms and patterns of all things. Cudworth. 2. (Gram.) An example of a…Păr'a-dig-măt'ic or Păr'a-dig-măt'ic-al, a. p. 946Exemplary. [Obs.] More.Păr'a-dig-măt'ic, n. p. 946(Eccl. Hist.) A writer of the memoirs of religious persons, as examples of Christian excellence.Păr'a-dĭg'ma-tīze, v. t. p. 946To set forth as a model, or example. [Obs.] Hammond.Pār'a-dĭg'ram-māt'i-çe, n. p. 946The act or art of molding figures in plaster. [Obs.]Paradīs, n. p. 946A wet dock or inner harbor. 2. The upper gallery in a play-house.Pār'a-di-sā'ie or Pār'a-di-sā'ie-al, a. p. 946Pertaining to, or resembling, paradise.Pār'a-dī'sal, a. p. 946Of, or relating to, paradise; paradisical. Lee.Pār'a-dīse, n. p. 946(Script.) The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed immediately after their creation. 2. A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight. The earth Shall all be paradise.…Pär'a-dīse, v. t. p. 946To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch. [Rare.] Marston.Pär'a-dĭs'e-ă, n. p. 946(Ornith.) A genus of passerine birds; bird of paradise.Pār'a-dīsed, a. p. 946Placed in paradise; enjoying delights as of paradise. [Obs.]Pār'a-dĭs'e-an, a. p. 946Of, or relating to, paradise.Pār'a-di-sī'ae-al or Pār'a-dīs'ī-al, a. p. 946Pär'a-dīs'ī-an p. 946Pertaining to Eden or paradise, or to a place of felicity; suitable to, or like, paradise.Pār'a-dīs'ie or Pār'a-dīs'ie-al, a. p. 946Pertaining to paradise; paradisiacal.Pār'a-dŏs, n. p. 946(Fort.) A mound of earth thrown up to protect a battery or other outwork from a fire in the rear.Păr'/a-dŏx, n. p. 946A tenet or proposition contrary to received opinion; a sentiment seemingly absurd or contradictory; that which in appearance and language is absurd, but yet true in fact. A glass there is to color…Păr/a-dŏx'al, a. p. 946The same as PARADOXICAL. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.Păr/a-dŏx'ie-al, a. p. 946Having the nature of a paradox. 2. Inclined to tenets or notions contrary to received opinions; — said of persons. The proposition appears to me one of the most untenable that ever was advanced by a…Pār/a-dōx'ie-al-ly, adv. p. 946In a paradoxical manner, or in a manner seemingly absurd.Pār'a-dŏx'ie-al-ness, n. p. 946State of being paradoxical.Pār'a-dox-ōl'o-gy, n. p. 946The use of paradoxes. [Obs.] Browne.Pār'a-dŏx'y, n. p. 946A paradoxical statement; also, the state or quality of being paradoxical. Coleridge.Pār'/a-drōme, n. p. 946(Arch.) A gallery or passage without any covering overhead. Ash.Pār'af-fīne, n. p. 946(Chem.) A white, translucent, crystalline substance, tasteless and inodorous, obtained from the distillation of mineral and vegetable tar. It resembles spermaceti, fuses at 110° Fahrenheit, and is…Pār'age, n. p. 946(Law.) (a.) (O. Eng. Law.) Equality of condition, blood, or dignity; also, equality in the partition of an inheritance. (b.) (Feudal Law.) Equality of condition between persons holding unequal…Pār'a-gĕn'ie, a. p. 946Originating in the character of the germ, or at the first commencement of an individual;— said of peculiarities of structure, character, and the like. Dana.Pār'a-gō'ge, n. p. 946(Gram.) The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word, as dicier, for dici, withouten for without. 2. (Surg.) The act of fitting together, as the bones of a fractured limb; the…Pār'a-gōg'ic or Pār'a-gōg'ic-al, a. p. 946Pertaining to, or constituting, a paragoge; added to the end of, or serving to lengthen, a word. Paragogic letters, in the Semitic languages, letters which are added to the ordinary forms of words…Pār'a-gŏn, n. p. 946A companion; a fellow; a match; an equal. [Obs.] “Comparing it to the present Philoclea, who indeed had no paragon but her sister.” Sidney. 2. A model or pattern; a model by way of distinction…