PARABLE
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Par"a*ble (?), a. [L. parabilis, fr. parare to provide.] Procurable. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
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Par"a*ble, n. [F. parabole, L. parabola, fr. Gr. &unr_; a placing beside or together, a comparing, comparison, a parable, fr. &unr_; to throw beside, compare; para` beside + &unr_; to throw; cf. Skr. gal to drop. Cf. Emblem, Gland, Palaver, Parabola, Parley, Parabole, Symbol.] A comparison; a similitude; specifically, a short fictitious narrative of something which might really occur in life or nature, by means of which a moral is drawn; as, the parables of Christ. Chaucer.
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Declare unto us the parable of the tares.
Matt. xiii. 36.
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Syn. -- See Allegory, and Note under Apologue.
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Par"a*ble, v. t. To represent by parable. [R.]
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Which by the ancient sages was thus parabled.
Milton.
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