PARADIGMATICAL
PARADIGMAT'ICAL, a. Exemplary. [Little used.]
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PARADIGMATIZE
PARADIG'MATIZE, verb transitive To set forth as a model or example. [Little used.]
PARADING
PARA'DING, participle present tense Assembling and arraying in due order; making an ostentatious show.
PARADISE
PAR'ADISE, noun [Gr.] The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed immediately after their creation.1. A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight.The ear...
PARADISEA
PARADIS'EA, noun Bird of Paradise, a genus of fowls, natives of the isles in the East Indies and of New Guinea.
PARADISEAN
PARADIS'EANPARADISI'ACAL, adjective Pertaining to Eden or Paradise, or to a place of felicity.1. Suiting paradise; like paradise.
PARADISIACAL
PARADISI'ACAL, a. Pertaining to Eden or Paradise, or to a place of felicity.1. Suiting paradise; like paradise.
PARADOX
PAR'ADOX, noun [Gr. beyond, and opinion; to or suppose.]A tenet or proposition contrary to received opinion, or seemingly absurd, yet true in fact.A gloss there is to color that...
PARADOXICAL
PARADOX'ICAL, adjective Having the nature of a paradox.1. Inclined to tenets or notions contrary to received opinions; applied to persons.
PARADOXICALLY
PARADOX'ICALLY, adverb In a paradoxical manner, or in a manner seemingly absurd.
PARADOXICALNESS
PARADOX'ICALNESS, noun State of being paradoxical.
PARADOXOLOGY
PARADOXOL'OGY, noun [paradox and Gr.discourse.]The use of paradoxes. [Not used.]
PARAGOGE
PARAGOGE, noun par'agojy. [Gr. a drawing out.] The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word; as dicier for dici. This is called a figure in grammar.
PARAGOGIC
PARAGOG'ICPARAGOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to a paragoge; lengthening a word by the addition of a letter or syllable.
PARAGOGICAL
PARAGOG'ICAL, a. Pertaining to a paragoge; lengthening a word by the addition of a letter or syllable.
PARAGON
PAR'AGON, noun [Latin par, equal.]1. A model or pattern; a model by way of distinction, implying superior excellence or perfection; as a paragon of beauty or eloquence.2. A comp...
PARAGRAM
PAR'AGRAM, noun [Gr.] A play upon words or a pun.
PARAGRAMMATIST
PARAGRAM'MATIST, noun A punster.
PARAGRAPH
PAR'AGRAPH, noun [Gr. a marginal note; to write near or beyond the text; beyond, and to write.] A distinct part of a discourse or writing; any portion or section of a writing or...
PARAGRAPHIC
PARAGRAPH'IC, adjective Consisting of paragraphs or short divisions, with breaks.
PARAGRAPHICALLY
PARAGRAPH'ICALLY, adverb By paragraphs; with distinct breaks or divisions.
PARALEPSIS
PARALEP'SISPAR'ALEPSY, noun [Gr. omission; beyond or by, and to leave.]In rhetoric, a pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker pretends to pass by what at the...
PARALEPSY
PAR'ALEPSY, n. [Gr. omission; beyond or by, and to leave.]In rhetoric, a pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker pretends to pass by what at the same time he...
PARALIPOMENA
PARALIPOM'ENA, noun [Gr. to omit; beyond, and to leave.]Things omitted; a supplement containing things omitted in the preceding work. The books of Chronicles are so called.
PARALIZE
PAR'ALIZE, verb transitive [Gr.] To affect as with palsy; to check action, or destroy the power of action.
PARALLACTIC
PARALLAC'TICPARALLAC'TICAL, adjective [See Parallax.] Pertaining to the parallax of a heavenly body.
PARALLACTICAL
PARALLAC'TICAL, a. [See Parallax.] Pertaining to the parallax of a heavenly body.