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adj. - Resembling or expressed by short moral stories adj. - Having the form of a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve

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  • Again, besides these four interpretations, there is the parabolical, which has been omitted.
  • If the scene of this parabolical history must be supposed to have been amongst the Jews, then there would some questions arise upon it: 1.
  • On the third point: the parabolical meaning is contained in the literal, since the words indicate something directly, and also something figuratively.
  • The houses, built of brick, were of two different types; some were covered with hemispherical or parabolical calottes, others had flat roofs with a tower in the fashion...
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