PAREMBOLE, noun parem'boly. [Gr. insertion.] In rhetoric, the insertion of something relating to the subject in the middle of a period. It differs from the parenthesis only in this; the parembole relates to the subject, the parenthesis is foreign from it.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.