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parabolical, a.|pærəˈbɒlɪkəl|
[see -ical.]
1. Of or pertaining to parable; involving, or constituting, parable; having a figurative, as opposed to a historical or literal, existence or value.
1554in Foxe A. & M. (1563) 910/2 Nothing can bee sayde more vncerteyne, or more parabolical and vnsensiblie than so to say. 1641Wilkins Mercury ii. (1707) 10 The Jewish Doctors..accustom themselves to a Parabolical Way of Teaching. a1716South Serm. (1717) III. 373 A Parabolical Description of God's vouchsafing to the World the Invaluable Blessing of the Gospel, by the Similitude of a King..Solemnizing his Son's Marriage. 1827G. S. Faber Sacr. Calend. Prophecy (1844) I. 6 That parabolical prophecy of our Lord: ‘wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together’. 1866Whittier Pr. Wks. (1889) I. 115 The Scripture they turn unto allegory and parabolical conceits.
†b. Using or addicted to the use of parable. Obs.
1691Wood Ath Oxon. II. 265 He..had a parabolical and allusive fancy. c1817Hogg Tales & Sk. (1837) IV. 9, I think aunty's unco parabolical the day.
2. Geom. = parabolic a. 2. Now rare.
1571Digges Pantom. Pref. A iij b, Archimedes..(as some suppose) with a glasse framed by reuolution of a section Parabolicall, fired the Romane nauie..comming to the siege of Syracusa. 1666Boyle Orig. Formes & Qual. (1667) 313 Not directly downwards, but in a parabolical or some such crooked line. 1728Pemberton Newton's Philos. 234 To compare the orbits, upon the supposition that they are parabolical. c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 111 A Parabolical Conoid.
Hence paraˈbolicalness. rare—0.
1727Bailey vol. II, Parabolicalness, the being of the Nature or Manner of a Parable. |