Par″al‐lel, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Paralleled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Paralleling (?).] 1. To place or set so as to be parallel; to place so as to be parallel to, or to conform in direction with, something else.
The needle... doth parallel and place itself upon the true meridian. Sir T. Browne.
2. Fig.: To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, or the like.
His life is paralleled
Even with the stroke and line of his great justice. Shak.
3. To equal; to match; to correspond to. Shak.
4. To produce or adduce as a parallel. Locke.
My young remembrance can not parallel
A fellow to it. Shak.