parallelisticadj.
/ˌparəlɛˈlɪstɪk/, U.S. /ˈˌpɛrəlɛˈlɪstɪk/ Relating to or characterized by parallelism (in various senses).
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > [adjective] > parallelism
parallelistic1830
parallelist1899
the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > comparison in parallel > [adjective]
parallelistic1830
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [adjective] > characterized by figures of parallelism
parisonal1652
parallelistic1881
parisonic1884
1830 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 361 The parallelistic arrangement is the most marked and general characteristic of Hebrew poetry.
1868 Contemp. Rev. 8 441 The parallelistic elucidation is nowhere applied with greater force.
1881 T. K. Cheyne Prophecies of Isaiah (1884) I. 88 A parallelistic poem.
1904 G. S. Fullerton Syst. Metaphysics xxi. 341 He quite wrecks his parallelistic formula.
1947 Jrnl. Philos. 44 712 We are rapidly outliving our language in respect to much of the mind-matter controversy, since the dualistic and parallelistic dichotomy of our existence is no longer relevant.
1987 M. H. Short & G. N. Leech Style in Fiction (BNC) 16 The elaborate parallelistic structure of these two sentences has been displayed above by placing the parallelisms or structural equivalences, in brackets.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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