Pare

v. a. To cut off extremities of the surface; to cut away by little and little; to diminish*( Hooker). ’ Pars’ (Ambrose), an eminent surgeon, born at Laval. Though a protestant, he was surgeon to Henry I. of France, and to his sucee ors; and at the ma acre of St. Bartholomew, Charles 1X. saved his life by shutting him up in his own closet. He made some useful discoveries in avatomy, and died 1590, at an advanced age. His works were translated into Latin by Guillemeau, Pare’ (David), a protestant divine, born. 1548, in Silesia. His step-mother placed him with an apothecary,’ and afterwards with a shoemaker; but his father recovering to a sense of his duty, permitted him to cultivate literature. By the advice of his master he exchanged his name of Wangler for the Greek word Pareus, and he became theological profe or at Heidelberg. ‘The best part of his life was engaged in controversy, in which he displayed learning and moderation. He died 1622, in his pareanum, in the suburbs of Heidelberg. Besides some tracts against the pope, and Bellarmine, he published a commentary on St. Paul’s epistle to the Romans, which was condemned by the university of Oxford, and- ‘burnt publicly by order of James I. Pare’ (Philip), son to the above, was a grammarian, born at Hembach, 1576, He was rector of the college of Neustadt, and afterwards of Hanau, and died 1650. He wrote Lexicon Criticum, 8vo;. Lexicon Plautinum, or a Vocabulary of Plautus’ Comedies; Gall i graph i a Romana, 8vo. .