similitudes

P: See how they coin similitudes for thee, so that they are all astray and cannot find a road!

Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902

This is in contrast to the parables which Snodgrass calls "similitudes" -- The Sower,

The Busybody 2009

One person thinks of a subject, and the others, not knowing what it is, name similitudes, and when the subject is proclaimed, must make good the comparisons.

The Journal to Stella 2003

One person thinks of a subject, and the others, not knowing what it is, name similitudes, and when the subject is proclaimed, must make good the comparisons.

The Journal to Stella Jonathan Swift 1706

With Origen we may term these "similitudes"; in one the object is found as if by accident (Isaiah 65: 1; Romans 10: 20: "I was found by them that did not seek me"); in the other a man seeks and buys it deliberately.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

P: And verily We have displayed for mankind in this Qur'an all kind of similitudes, but most of mankind refuse aught save disbelief.

Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902

"similitudes," as we do in the Faery Queen of Spenser, or the Pilgrim's

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

About parallel realities, but focused in their similitudes rather than their differences.

Archive 2009-04-01 Robert 2009

Hamilton amassed a considerable collection of modern peasant offerings in the form of what an ancient gynecological treatise called "wax similitudes."

A Silly, Very Cultured Club Rowland, Ingrid D. 2009

And God strikes similitudes for man, and God has knowledge of everything.

Mysticism in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy Aminrazavi, Mehdi 2009