parabaptization (parabaptizashon)

Same as parabaptism. para basal (par-a-bā'sal), a.and n. [ next to a basal and articulated therewith. II. n. One of the para basal i a of a crinoid; a parabasale. parabasale (para-ba-sale), n.; pl. paraba salia (-li-ä). [NL., Gr. παρά, beside, basale, q. v.] One of the joints of a series of divisions of the branches composing the calyx of some crinoids, articulating with the basalia. Cryptocrinus, the simplest form of the group [of Cysti dea ), po e es a calyx supported on a stem and composed of five basalia, five para basal i a , and five radialia. Huxley , Anat. Invert., p. 508. parabasis (pa-rab'ā-sis), n . [NL., βασις (as def.), παρά , παρά beside, + βάσις , a stepping, step, βαίνειν , walk, valk, step.] The chief of the choral parts in ancient Greek comedy. It was sung by the chorus, usually divided into four rows of six and moving backward and forward facing the audience, during an intermi ion in the action, and while the actors were off the stage. It was written for the most part in anapestic tetrameters, and consisted, in fact, of an addre from the poet to the public, giving his views and advice on affairs of state, as well as, often, his personal interests and claims for recognition or reward. The parabasis was regularly divided into six rhetorical parts, which were again subdivided; but any of these parts might be omitted or modified. It continued in the fully developed comedy the tradition of the Bacchic proce ions in which Greek comedy had its origin. Something similar in purpose to the parabasis was e ayed in one, at least, of the comedies of Beaumont and Fletcher, and in our time by Tieck. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 218. The distinctive feature of Old, as compared with Middle Comedy, is the parabasis , the speech in which the chorus, moving towards and facing the audience, addre ed it in the name of the poet, often abandoning all reference to the action of the play. Encyc. Brit., VII. 407. parabema (par-a-bē'mä), n.; pl. parabemata (-ma-tä). [MGr. * παράβημα, parabematic (para-be-mat'ik), a. [ parablast