para schematic

[Gr. paraschēmatizō = to imitate.] Imitative. "The growth of these early themes may have been very luxuriant, and, as Profe or Curtius expre es it, chiefly para schematic ." -Max Muller : Selected E ays, 1. 98. păr-a-scop'-ě-lus, s. [Pref. para- , and Mod. Lat. scopelus (q. v.).] Palæont .: A genus of Scopelide, from the Miocene of Licata. păr-a-se-le-në ( pl. păr-a-se-le-næ), s. [Pref. para-, and Gr. selene =the moon.] Astron.: A faintly luminous image of the moon, with the margins of the disk somewhat undefined. One or more of such mock-moons are sometimes seen in a halo surrounding the real luminary. The sight, which is rare here, is common in the polar parasitically