in parvoadv.
/ɪn ˈpɑːvəʊ/, U.S. /ɪn ˈpɑrˌvoʊ/ In miniature, in microcosm.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [phrase] > on a small scale
in little1604
in parvo1676
in miniature1700
in small1765
in pettoa1846
small-scale1852
in diminutive-
1676 J. Harris Divine Physician ii. v. 199 The words of an eminent Author..in his late Discourse of the Excellency of Theology which just now saluted mine eye, and gave me such a fair Prospect, in parvo, of my preceding Discourse, as I will not let them pass, but shall here insert them, both for strength and ornament thereunto.
1700 J. Knight Serm. 21 The Seeds of Plants do contain every individual part of the entire Bodies, in parvo, which spring from them.
1785 New Rev. Feb. 134 An apparatus for shewing in parvo the effect of a pure or vital air in combustion.
1849 Friends Rev. 29 Dec. 270/1 We extract from that Journal the following letter, which the Reviewer remarks contains the story of a life in parvo.
1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 4 July 4/1 There is a sermon in parvo of the duty of life-work first, and the fee second.
1976 H. Wilson Governance of Brit. iii. 65 It is for him to ensure that a Cabinet committee is the Cabinet in parvo, a microcosm of the Cabinet itself.
2009 K. D. Lilley City & Cosmos 7 These microcosmicisms were closely entwined in Christian thinking of the Middle Ages and both were put to use conceiving the city as a world in parvo and as a body writ large.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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