parablepsyn.
/ˈparəblɛpsi/, U.S. /ˈpɛrəˌblɛpsi/ 1. † a. Medicine. = parablepsis n. 1. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Parablepsis,..term for false vision; side vision: parablepsy.
b. poetic. A hallucination. rare.
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1934 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Stony Limits 57 Glistening with exoskeletal stars we turn in vain This way and that and but changing perigraphs gain, Parablepsies, calentures, every cursèd paranthelion Of this theandric force Pepper's-ghosting God.
2. Scribal oversight, esp. the erroneous assimilation of the spelling of a word to that of another in the text; an instance of this. Chiefly in relation to the editing of old, esp. classical, texts.
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1885 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 6 27 The frequency of the error to which we give the name of lateral aberration, or parablepsy.
1910 Classical Q. 4 280 By a parablepsy the eye of the scribe passed unconsciously from the o of fatio rem to that of Scipionis a few words later, hence facillionis.
1974 Classical Philol. 69 121/2 The corruption most probably arose as a result of scribal parablepsy.
1994 Classical Philol. 89 30 Omission by..parablepsy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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