para cyesis (par"asiesis)

παρά, beside, + NL. cyesis, q. v.] In pathol., extra-uterine pregnancy. para cystitis (para-sis-ti'tis), n. [NL., para dactylar (par-a-dak'ti-lär), a. [ paradactylum (par-a-dak'ti-lum), n.; pl. para dactyl a (-lä). [ the sole. See acrodactylum. parade (pa-rad'), n. [Formerly also para do (after Sp.); parade dre , trim, adorn: see parel. Cf. parry, a doublet of parade. The senses 'dre , adorn, set in order,' and 'halt' (for inspection, etc.) are appar. all involved in the present uses of parade.] e. 1. Show; display; ostentation. Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade . Swift . There's sic parade , sic pomp, and art, The joy can scarcely reach the heart. Burns, The Twa Dogs. IMG:content-2278.png:[blocks in formation] 4. The place where such a embly or review is held, or the space allotted to it. Be it known, lords, knights, and esquires, ladies and gentlewomen you are hereby acquainted that a superb at arms, and a grand and noble tournament, will be held in the parade of Clarencieux king at arms. Old Proclamation, quoted in Strutt's Sports and [Pastimes, p. 207. 5. The level plain forming the interior or inclosed area of a fortification, corresponding to the courtyard of a castle.-6. A public walk, as on an avenue or esplanade; a public promenade: as, the marine parade at Brighton, England.-7. In fencing, the act of parrying; avoidance of a thrust by slight movements of the hand and wrist, which place the strong part of the blade above the guard in opposition to the weak part of the opponent's blade nearer the tip, thus deflecting his sword-point so that it pa es the body without touching: a French term, used in English for parry. Parades, or more properly parries, correspond to the thrusts against which they guard: thus, parade in or of quarte, parade in or of tierce, prime, second, etc. Hence-8. A posture of preparedne to meet attack or parry thrusts; a posture of defense; guard. [French use.] Accustom him to make... judgment of men by those marks, which give a prospect into their inside, which often shews itself in little things, when they are not in parade , and upon their guard. Locke, Education, § 94. Circle parade. See circle . - Evening parade, a parade of troops held about sunset. - Morning parade, a parade or a embly of troops held in the forenoon. - Parade bed. See bed1 . - Parade guard-mounting ( mil it .), a guard-mounting in full dre , held on the general parade of a camp garrison: distinguished from undre guard mounting, which may be held on the company parade ground, or wherever convenient, and in undre or fatigue uniform.-Parade officer, an officer familiar with the details of regimental and ceremonial duties, but not distinguished for knowledge of military science, either practical or theoretical. - Undre parade, a parade held with curtailed formality and ceremony, as in bad weather or for roll-call, publication of orders, etc. The companies fall in without arms, and the band without instruments. See also dre - parade. =Syn. 1. Show, Display, etc. See ostentation.-2 and 3. Pageant, spectacle. parade (pa-rād'), v.; pret. and pp. paraded, ppr. parading. [ 3. To exhibit or manifest in an ostentatious manner; make a parade or display of. He early discovered that by parading his unhappine before the multitude he produced an immense sensation. Macaulay, Moore's Byron. Nothing is easier than to parade abstract theorems. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 26. Unfair applications of the laws of variation are, however, constantly made, and are paraded by a host of littérateurs and third-rate scientific men as if they were sufficient to explain all things. Dawson, Nature and the Bible, p. 142. = Syn. 3. To display, flaunt, show off. II, in trans. 1. To a emble and be marshaled in military order; march in military proce ion.-2. To march up and down or promenade in a public place for the purpose of showing one's self. His [name], that seraphs tremble at, is hung Disgracefully on ev'ry trifler's tongue, Or serves the champion in forensic war To flourish and parade with at the bar. Cowper, Expostulation, 1. 665. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary IMG:content-2280.png:[blocks in formation] At length within this book I found portrayed Newborn that Paradisal Love of his. = Icel. paradīs = Sw. Dan. paradis , para- dis us , a park, orchard, the garden of Eden, the abode of the ble ed, παράδεισος , & park, deer-park, used as an Eastern term in Xenophon and others for the parks of the Persian kings and nobles, in the Septuagint for the garden of Eden, in the N. T. for the abode of the ble ed; = Heb. pardes = Armen. pardez , a garden, OPers. pairidaēza , an inclosure, Pers. Ar. fir- daus , a garden, paradise. The AS. name for paradise was neorxna wang , neorxna wong , Goth. waggs. The lit. sense (def. 1) is later in E. Cf. parvis .] 1. A park or pleasure-ground con- nected with the residence of an Oriental prince; a garden. The garden is rather a park or paradise , contriv'd and planted with walkes and shades of myrtils, cypre e, and other trees. Evelyn , Diary, April 11, 1645. The A yrian kings... maintained magnificent parks, or " paradises ," in which game of every kind was enclosed. So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise , Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champ a in head Of a steep wilderne . 3. In theol .: (a) That part of the place of de- parted spirits where the souls of the righteous are by some believed to await the resurrection. (b) Sometimes, heaven, or the final abode of the ble ed. Hence-4. A place of extreme beauty paradisiacal scene among groves and gardens. or delight; a region of supreme felicity or bli . A Paradise of roses was prefigured; a wilderne of thorns was found. De Quincey , Philos. of Rom. Hist. Glanville, Pre-existence of Souls, xiv. The summer is a kind of heaven, where we wander in a Pope . The thorn and the thistle may grow as they will, Where Friendship unfolds there is Paradise still. 5. In medieval arch .: ( a ) A small private apart- ment or study. (b) A court or inclosed area in front of a church. (This use of the word has induced the supposition that the word parvis is a corruption of paradise .] 6. The upper gallery in a play-house; the place of the "gallery gods." [Slang.]-Bird of para- dise. See bird1 . - Flower of paradise. See henna.- Fools' paradise. See fooll . - Grains of paradise. See Paradisiadæ (para-di-si'a-dē), n. pl . [NL.] Same as Paradiseidæ . paradisial (par-a-dis'i-al), a. [ -ial .] Same as paradisiac . paradisian (par-a-dis'i-an), a. [ paradise + "-ian.] Same as paradisiac . [Rare.] Hence we inherit such a life as this, Dead of itself to paradisic bli . nus of Paradiseidæ . The name was formerly applied to all the birds of paradise and some related forms, but is inhabiting New Guinea and some of the neighboring isl. ands. P. apod a is the one longest and best known, also called P. major , or the greater paradise-bird, as dist in- guished from P. minor or papuana , the le er or Papuan paradise-bird. (See cut under bird1 .) P. sanguine a or rubra is the red bird of paradise. To these three, all known for a century or more, has lately been added P. raggiana , or Raggi's paradise-bird, nearest related to the first named. Others than these 4 species are now usually placed in dif- ferent genera. See Paradiseidæ , and cut under bird1 . paradisean (par-a-dis'ē-an), a . [ paradise + -an.] 1t. Same as paradisiacal . -2. Of or per- taining to the Paradisean a or Paradiseidæ . Paradisean a (par-a-dis-e-a'nä), n. pl . [NL.: see paradisean .] Birds of paradise: synony- mous with Paradiseidæ . N. A. Vigors , 1825. paradise-applet (par'a-dis-ap"l), n. The to- pa paradise-bird (par'a-dis-bėrd), n . Any bird of paradise. See phrase under bird1 . Paradiseidæ (para-di-sē'i-dē), n. pl. [NL., Paradise a + -idæ .] A family of sturnoid os- cine pa erine birds of the order Pa eres , fa- mous for the splendor of their plumage, and preeminently characteristic of the Papuan avi- fauna; the birds of paradise. The limits of the fam- ily have been much in question, and it has been restricted to the dozen or more species of the genera Paradise a , Para- disornis, Schlegelia , Diphyllodes , Cincinnurus , Parotia , and Lophorhina . More properly, however, these and some re- lated forms, as A strap i a , Para dig all a , Rhipidornis , Semi- opter a, and also Xanthomelas , Lycocorax , Manucodia , and Phonygama , constitute a special subfamily Paradise inæ , in which the bill is more or le thick, while the slender- billed genera Ptilorhis , Seleucides , Drepanornis , and Epi- mach us are placed in another subfamily, Epimachinæ. The splendor of the plumage, and its chief peculiarities in size, shape, and texture, are characteristic of the male The general affinities of the birds are with starlings and crows. See cuts at bird1 , Cincinnurus, Epimachus , paradise-stock (par'a-dis-stok), n. A horti- culturists' name for certain hardy slow-grow alehouse. ing apple-stocks upon which more thrifty-grow- ing varieties are grafted, the result being a dwarfing of the graft. Apples are "worked" on the paradise or "douc in" stocks , which from their influence on the scion are known as dwarfing stocks. Encyc. Brit ., XII. 213. IMG:content-2281.png:[blocks in formation]