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▪ I. ‖ parison1 Rhet.|ˈpærɪsən| Pl. parisa. [a. Gr. πάρισον, neuter of πάρισος exactly or evenly balanced, f. παρ(α- beside + ἴσος equal.] An even balance in the members of a sentence.
1586A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 86 Membrum or Parison, when one or more members doe follow in equall sentences. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 222 Parison, or the Figure of euen... In this figure we once wrote..these verses. The good is geason, and short is his abode, The bad bides long, and easie to be found: Our life is loathsome, our sinnes a heauy lode, Conscience a curst iudge, remorse a priuie goade. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 988 His parisa, standing upon equall weight and measure of syllables. 1894C. G. Child Lyly & Euphuism 52 As Lyly's first thought is evidently to be antithetical, the use of parison, though constant, enters as a secondary matter. Hence (irreg.) † paˈrisonal, pariˈsonic a., characterized by ‘parison’ or exact balance of clauses.
1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 293 The harmony of a well-concerted period, in its isocoletick and parisonal members [cf. Diodorus xii. 53 ἰσόκωλα και πάρισα]. 1884Symonds Shaks. Predecess. xiii. 512 [Euphuism] is characterised..by antithesis of thought and diction,..enforced by alliterative and parisonic use of language. 1894Raleigh Eng. Novel ii. (1903) 33 Almost every sentence being balanced in two or more parisonic parts. ▪ II. parison2 Glass-blowing.|ˈpærɪsən| Also 9 paraison. [a. F. paraison, deriv. of parer to prepare, corresp. to L. parātiōn-em from parāre.] 1. orig. The rounded mass into which the molten glass is first gathered and rolled when taken from the furnace. Also attrib. as parison-hole.
1832G. R. Porter Porcelain & Gl. 169 By this means the particles of glass are agglomerated in a cylindrical form, which is then called by the workmen a paraison. 1903K. A. Macaulay (Chance Bros.) Let., The word ‘parison’ survives among our workmen, not as directly applied to the piece of glass, but to the ‘hole’ or opening into a furnace for reheating the glass after moulding it, which they call a ‘parison-hole’. 2. Hence, in a bottle-making machine: see quot.
1888Daily News 14 Feb. 6/6 The present machine consists first of a receptacle, called a ‘parison’, in which the exact quantity of molten metal required to form a bottle is placed, there being no overplus or waste. At the lower part of the ‘parison’ is the collar mould which forms the lip. |