Again, besides these four interpretations, there is the parabolical, which has been omitted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference

On the third point: the parabolical meaning is contained in the literal, since the words indicate something directly, and also something figuratively.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference

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 of a belvedere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890] Reference

The sort of person given to staging extravagant parabolical dramas or writing out involute private imaginings is usually at a bit of a loss among artisans of more practical fantasies; or, often enough, their victim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genet's Last Stand] Reference

The text is parabolical, and includes both senses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.] Reference

The other two were parabolical representations; this is the thing itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke] Reference

It is divided into narrative, representative, and allusive or parabolical poetry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy] Reference

The former comprehends the more obscure, parabolical, and enigmatical passages, and such as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Koran (Al-Qur'an)] Reference

And we may indeed find discourses of His parabolical throughout, but none direct throughout.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew] Reference

Scripture they turn into allegory and parabolical conceits, and thus obscure and debauch the truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference

Methinks I have walked for some years o'er a parabolical paving, and rested me in many an allegorical chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall] Reference

The carrying surfaces, that is, the two aerocurves, were 40 by 6 feet, having a parabolical curve of one in twelve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying Machines: Construction and Operation] Reference

References to the same event, some plain, some parabolical, or otherwise figurative, are found in divers other discourses of our Lord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evidence of Christianity] Reference

In this chapter we have, I. Christ's parabolical discourse concerning himself as the door of the sheepfold, and the shepherd of the sheep, ver.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference

Institution, there are at present three modern explanations contending for supremacy — the symbolical, the parabolical, and the eschatological.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference

It is a characteristic of all parabolical representation to be elastic, and sometimes to duplicate its emblems for the same thing; and that is the case here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms] Reference

And these same thoughts, though modified in their form, and free from the parabolical element, appear in the words that we have to consider on this occasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI] Reference

Our Lord's habitual language was parabolical; I use the word in a wide sense, to include all language which is not meant to be taken according to the letter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps] Reference

There was a gifted and deeply earnest lady, who in a parabolical account of that time, has described both my conduct as she felt it, and that of such as herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apologia pro Vita Sua] Reference

There was a gifted and deeply earnest lady, who in a parabolical account of that time, has described both my conduct as she felt it, and her own feelings upon it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apologia Pro Vita Sua] Reference

The case is not much better in regard to the parabolical interpretation, which would discern in the pouring out of the wine a mere parable of the shedding of the Blood on the Cross.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference

And thus I have given you both the literal and the figurative sense of the words; and if it be now asked, which of them is to take place, I answer, that the words are parabolical, and include them both.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.] Reference

John de la Casse’s parabolical representation, — as was to be found in any one poetic fiction or mystic record of antiquity. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference

Where, I pray you, is my body to be, Sir, whilst my soul dwelleth in your parabolical city? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall] Reference

"I did never walk yet o'er a parabolical paving, nor sat me down to rest me of an allegorical chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall] Reference

Its parabolical description, 80.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.] Reference

And these are either plain, proper, and direct, or dark, figurative, and parabolical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ] Reference