Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In rhetoric, a comparison; specifically, a simile, especially a formal simile, as in poetry or poetic prose, taken from a present or imagined object or event: distinguished from a paradigm, or comparison with a real past event.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rhet.) Similitude; comparison.
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- noun rhetoric
similitude ;comparison
Etymologies
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Examples
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Colossians 2: 17, the type is said to be skia ton mellonton "a shadow of things to come"; in Hebrews 9: 9, it is called parabole, a
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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From Greek parabole “a comparison, parable,” literally “a throwing beside,” from para- “alongside” + bole “a throwing, casting, beam, ray,” related to ballein “to throw.”
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Degli ID da 10 secondi raccontano parabole su tale mondo.
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Observe that parabole does not occur in St. John's Gospel nor paroimia
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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The word parable (Hebrew mashal; Syrian mathla, Greek parabole) signifies in general a comparison, or a parallel, by which one thing is used to illustrate another.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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It dealt with tyranny and oppression and other blessed words dear to the heart of the revolutionary; it concerned millions of men and hundreds of millions of men and women in chains, under iron heels, and the like; and Mr. Bim grew more and more hazy, for he was not used to the parabole, the allegory, or the metaphor.
The Book of All-Power Edgar Wallace 1903
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(Gr. parabole), a placing beside; a comparison; equivalent to the Heb. mashal, a similitude.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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TuyÕn tr¸nh By-pass §êng trôc Arterial highway §êng trôc c¸p Cable trace §êng trôc c¸p d¹ng parabole Parapolic cable trace §êng trôc c¸p gåm c¸c ®o¹n th¼ng Cable trace with segmental line §êng trôc vßm Arch axis §êng trôc, ®êng tim Center line §êng truyÒn t¶i träng Load path §êng vßng Roundabout §Ëp ®Êu cäc Ship pile head
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‘métier’ and ‘ministère’; from ‘parabola’, ‘parole’ and ‘parabole’; from ‘peregrinus’, ‘pélerin’ and ‘pérégrin’; from ‘factio’, ‘façon’ and ‘faction’, and it has now adopted ‘factio’ in a third shape, that is, in our English ‘fashion’; from ‘pietas’, ‘pitié’ and
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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L infiniment oubliee (Les ditions du Vermillon) - Jean Mohsen Fahmy, Freres ennemis (VLB Editeur) - Daniel Poliquin, Rene Levesque (Les ditions du Boreal) - Daniel Soha, La Maison: une parabole (ditions du GREF)
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