Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PAR'A-GRAPH-ED, pp.

Formed or written in paragraphs.

PAR-A-GRAPH'IC, a.

Consisting of paragraphs or divisions with breaks.

PAR-A-GRAPH'IC-AL-LY, adv.

By paragraphs; with distinct breaks or divisions.

PAR-A-LEP'SIS, or PAR'A-LEP-SY, n. [Gr. παραλειψις, omission; παρα, beyond or by, and λειπω, to leave.]

In rhetoric, a pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker pretends to pass by what at the same time he really mentions. – Encyc.

PAR'A-LI-POM'E-NA, n. [Gr. παραλειπω, to omit; παρα, beyond, and λειπω, to leave.]

Things omitted; a supplement containing things omitted in the preceding work. The books of Chronicles are so called. – Encyc. Bailey.

PAR-AL-LAC'TIC, or PAR-AL-LAC'TIC-AL, a. [See Parallax.]

Pertaining to the parallax of a heavenly body.

PAR'AL-LAX, n. [Gr. παραλλαξις, from παραλλασσω, to vary, to decline or wander, παρα, beyond, and αλλασσω, to change.]

In astronomy, the change of place in a heavenly body in consequence of being viewed from different points. Diurnal parallax, the difference between the place of a celestial body, as seen from the surface, and from the center of the earth, at the same instant. Annual parallax, the change of place in a heavenly body, in consequence of being viewed at opposite extremities of the earth's orbit.

PAR'AL-LEL, a. [Gr. παραλληλος; παρα, against or opposite, and αλληλων, one the other.]

1. In geometry, extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant. One body or line is parallel to another, when the surfaces of the bodies or the lines are at an equal distance throughout the whole length.
2. Having the same direction or tendency; running in accordance with something. When honor runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it can not be too much cherished. – Addison.
3. Continuing a resemblance through many particulars; like; equal in all essential parts; as, a parallel case; a parallel passage in the evangelists. – Watts.

PAR'AL-LEL, n.

1. A line which throughout its whole extent is equidistant from another line; as, parallels of latitude. Who made the spider parallels design, / Sure as De Moivre without rule or line? – Pope.
2. A line on the globe marking the latitude.
3. Direction conformable to that of another line. – Garth.
4. Conformity continued through many particulars or in all essential points; resemblance; likeness. 'Twixt earthly females and the moon, / All parallels exactly run. – Swift.
5. Comparison made; as, to draw a parallel between two characters. – Addison.
6. Any thing equal to or resembling another in all essential particulars. None but thyself can be thy parallel. – Pope.

PAR'AL-LEL, v.t.

1. To place so as to keep the same direction, and at an equal distance from something else. Brown.
2. To level; to equal. – Fell. Shak.
3. To correspond to. – Burnet.
4. To be equal to; to resemble in all essential points. – Dryden.
5. To compare. – Locke.

PAR'AL-LEL-A-BLE, a.

That may be equaled. [Not much used.]

PAR'AL-LEL-ED, pp.

Leveled; equaled; compared.

PAR'AL-LEL-ISM, n.

1. State of being parallel. – More.
2. Resemblance; equality of state; comparison. – Walton.

PAR'AL-LEL-LY, adv.

In a parallel manner; with parallelism. – Scott.

PAR-AL-LEL'O-GRAM, n. [Gr. παραλληλος and γραμμα.]

1. In geometry, a right lined quadrilateral figure, whose opposite sides are parallel and equal. – Harris.
2. In common use, this word is applied to quadrilateral figures of more length than breadth, and this is its sense in the passage cited by Johnson from Brown.

PAR-AL-LEL-O-GRAM'IC, or PAR-AL-LEL-O-GRAM'IC-AL, a.

Having the properties of a parallelogram.

PAR-AL-LEL-O-PI'PED, n. [parallel and Gr. επι, on, and πεδον, a plain.]

In geometry, a regular solid comprehended under six parallelograms, the opposite ones of which are similar, parallel and equal to each other, or it is a prism whose base is a parallelogram. It is always triple to a pyramid of the same base and highth. Or a parallelopiped it a solid figure bounded by six faces, parallel to each other two and two. – Harris. Encyc.

PAR-AL-LEL-O-PI-PE'DI-A, n.

A genus of spars, externally of a determinate and regular figure, always found loose and separate from other bodies, and in the form of an oblique parallelopiped, with six parallelogramic sides and eight solid angles. – Encyc.

PA-RAL'O-GISM, n. [Gr. παραλογισμος; παρα, beyond, and λογισμος, reasoning; λογος, discourse, reason.]

In logic, a fallacious argument or false reasoning; an error committed in demonstration, when a consequence is drawn from principles which are false, or though true, are not proved; or when a proposition is passed over that should have been proved by the way. – Encyc.

PA-RAL'O-GIZE, v.i.

To reason falsely. – Ash.

PA-RAL'O-GY, n.

False reasoning. [supra.] – Brown.

PA-RAL'Y-SIS, n. [Gr. παραλυσις, from παραλυω, to loosen, dissolve or weaken; παρα and λυω.]

An abolition of function, whether of intellect, special sensation, voluntary motion, common sensation, or sympathetic motion.

PAR-A-LYT'IC, or PAR-A-LYT'IC-AL, a.

1. Affected with palsy.
2. Inclined or tending to palsy.

PAR-A-LYT'IC, n.

A person affected with palsy. – Hall.

PAR'A-LYZE, v.t. [Gr. παραλυω, παραλυσις.]

To affect with palsy.