parochinert

A parishioner. [Scotch.] Many of the Parochin ers, dwelling in rowmes of the parochine, so remote. Acts James VI ., 1621, c. 5, Murray. (Jamie son.) parodet, n. Same as parody1 . All which in a parode , imitating Virgil, we may set downe, but chiefely touching surfet. rhythmical movement, on entering the orchestra.-3. An external gallery or gangway, running from stem to stern on each side of an ancient Greek war-ship, outside the bulwarks, and supported on brackets over the water. parody (par'ō-di), n.; pl. parodies (-diz). [Formerly also parode; = F. parodie = Sp. paródia = Pg. It. parodia, They were satirick poems, full of parodies- that is, of verses patched up from great poets and turned into another sense than their author intended them. Dryden. The sublime parody of Cervantes, which cut short the whole race of knights-errant. Pre scott , Ferd. and Isa., i. 18. What wonder that Dryden should have been substituted for Davenant as the butt of the "Rehearsal," and that the parody should have had such a run? Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 27. 2t. A popular maxim; a proverb. Wright. = Syn. 1. Burlesque, Travesty, etc. See caricature. parody1 (par'o-di), v. t.; pret. and pp. parodied, ppr. parodying. [F. parodier = Pg. parodiar = It. parodiare, parodare; from the noun.] To turn into a parody; write a parody upon; imitate, as a poem or song, in a ludicrous or ridiculous manner. I have translated, or rather parodied, a poem of Horace. Pope. All... [Johnson's] peculiarities have been imitated by his admirers and parodied by his a ailants till the public has become sick of the subject. Macaulay, Boswell's Johnson. parody (par'ō-di), n.; pl. parodies (-diz). [ME., Amonge al this, the fyne of the parodye Of Ector gan appro chen wonder blyve.