parvirostrate (parvirostrat)

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia · 1897 · p. 99
[L. par vus, small, + rostratus, having a bill, It [Villa Mon drag one] stands perched on a terrace as vast as the parvise of St. Peter's, looking straight away over black cypre -tops into the shining vastne of Campagna. H. James, Jr. , Trans. Sketches, p. 179. 2. A room over a church porch employed as a school-room or a storage-room, or as a lodging for some ecclesiastic. Over each porch in the nave is a parvise, or priest's chamber. N. and Q., 7th ser., VI. 203. Pasaanni: pa agium, pa age.] A member of a religious of the guard of the rapier of the sixteenth cenbody of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries tury. See hilt, guard, and sword. which arose in Lombardy and existed chiefly in Italy. They denied the doctrine of the Trinity, and restored the rites of the Old Testament, excepting the sacrifices. pas an (pa'zan), n. [A native African name.] An antelope, the oryx. pas d'armes (på därm). [F.: pas, pace; d ' for de, of; armes, pl. of arme, arm: see arm2.] A just, tilt, or tourney. See pa age of arms, un der pa age.
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