Definition of paralipomena in English:
paralipomena
(also paraleipomena)
plural nounˌparəlɪˈpɒmɪnəˌparəlīˈpämənə
formal 1Things omitted from a work and added as a supplement.
Example sentencesExamples
- The Parerga (Volume 1) are six long essays; the Paralipomena (Volume 2) are shorter writings arranged under thirty-one different subject-headings.
- In occasional political comments in his Parerga and Paralipomena and Manuscript Remains, Schopenhauer described himself as a proponent of limited government.
- 1.1usually Paralipomenonarchaic (in the Vulgate Bible and some other versions) the name of the books of Chronicles, regarded as supplementary to the books of Kings.
Origin
Late Middle English: via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek paraleipomena, from paraleipein 'omit', from para- 'to one side' + leipein 'to leave'.
Definition of paralipomena in US English:
paralipomena
(also paraleipomena)
plural nounˌparəlīˈpämənə
formal 1Things omitted from a work and added as a supplement.
Example sentencesExamples
- The Parerga (Volume 1) are six long essays; the Paralipomena (Volume 2) are shorter writings arranged under thirty-one different subject-headings.
- In occasional political comments in his Parerga and Paralipomena and Manuscript Remains, Schopenhauer described himself as a proponent of limited government.
- 1.1usually Paralipomenonarchaic (in the Vulgate Bible and some other versions) the name of the books of Chronicles, regarded as supplementary to the books of Kings.
Origin
Late Middle English: via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek paraleipomena, from paraleipein ‘omit’, from para- ‘to one side’ + leipein ‘to leave’.