Word Meanings - PARABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Procurable. Sir T. Browne.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PARABLE)

• Allegory
• Parable
• metaphor
• fable
• illustration
• image
• Apologue
• Fable
• fiction
• parable
• Myth
• legend
• supposition
• allegory
• fabulous story
• fabrication

Related words: (words related to PARABLE)

• METAPHORIST
  One who makes metaphors.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• STORYBOOK
  A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false.
• FICTIONIST
  A writer of fiction. Lamb.
• APOLOGUE
  A story or relation of fictitious events, intended to convey some moral truth; a moral fable. Note: An apologue differs from a parable in this;: the parable is drawn from events which take place among mankind, and therefore requires probability
• FICTION
  An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth. Wharton. 5. Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue. Syn. --
• FABLE
  1. A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue. Jotham's fable of the trees is the oldest extant. Addison 2. The plot,
• STORY-TELLER
  1. One who tells stories; a narrator of anecdotes,incidents, or fictitious tales; as, an amusing story-teller. 2. An historian; -- in contempt. Swift. 3. A euphemism or child's word for "a liar."
• ALLEGORY
  A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured. Syn. -- Metaphor; fable. -- Allegory, Parable. "An allegory differs both from fable and parable, in that the properties of persons are
• IMAGERY
  1. The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass. "Painted imagery." Shak. In those oratories might you see Rich carvings, portraitures, and imagery. Dryden. 2. Fig.: Unreal
• FICTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic."Fictional rather than historical." Latham.
• FABLER
  A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods. Br. Hall.
• IMAGER
  One who images or forms likenesses; a sculptor. Praxiteles was ennobled for a rare imager. Holland.
• ILLUSTRATION
  1. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct. 2. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible,
• METAPHORIC; METAPHORICAL
  Of or pertaining to metaphor; comprising a metaphor; not literal; figurative; tropical; as, a metaphorical expression; a metaphorical sense. -- Met`a*phor"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Met`a*phor"ic*al*ness, n.
• LEGEND
  fr. L. legendus to be read, fr. legere to read, gather; akin to Gr. 1. That which is appointed to be read; especially, a chronicle or register of the lives of saints, formerly read at matins, and in the refectories of religious houses. 2. A story
• IMAGELESS
  Having no image. Shelley.
• LEGENDARY
  Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends; consisting of legends; like a legend; fabulous. "Legendary writers." Bp. Lloyd. Legendary stories of nurses and old women. Bourne.
• IMAGEABLE
  That may be imaged.
• PARABLE
  Procurable. Sir T. Browne.
• INEFFABLENESS
  The quality or state of being ineffable or unutterable; unspeakableness.
• CLERESTORY
  See CLEARSTORY
• FALDISTORY
  The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel. (more info) faldstuol; faldan, faltan, to fold + stuol stool. So called because it could be folded or laid together. See Fold, and
• EFFABLE
  Capable of being uttered or explained; utterable. Barrow.
• PRESUPPOSITION
  1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.
• REPARABLE
  Capable of being repaired, restored to a sound or good state, or made good; restorable; as, a reparable injury.
• CONSISTORY
  The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf.
• MISCHIEFABLE
  Mischievous. Lydgate.
• INEFFABLE
  Incapable of being expresses in words; unspeakable; unutterable; indescribable; as, the ineffable joys of heaven. Contentment with our lot . . . will diffuse ineffable contenBeattie.
• CLERSTORY
  See CLEARSTORY
• SEPARABLE
  Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided; as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist. -- Sep"a*ra*ble*ness, n. -- Sep"a*ra*bly, adv. Trials permit me not to doubt of the