Word Meanings - PARABOLICALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.

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• PARABOLICALLY
  1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• PARABLE
  Procurable. Sir T. Browne.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• PARABOLA
  A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• PARABOLIC; PARABOLICAL
  1. Of the nature of a parable; expressed by a parable or figure; allegorical; as, parabolical instruction. 2. Etym: Having the form or nature of a parabola; pertaining to, or resembling, a parabola; as, a parabolic curve. Generated by
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• REPARABLE
  Capable of being repaired, restored to a sound or good state, or made good; restorable; as, a reparable injury.
• 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
• COMPARABLE
  Capable of being compared; worthy of comparison. There is no blessing of life comparable to the enjoyment of a discreet and virtuous friend. Addison. -- Com"pa*ra*ble*ness, n. -- Com"pa*ra*bly, adv.
• SEMIPARABOLA
  One branch of a parabola, being terminated at the principal vertex of the curve.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• INCOMPARABLE
  Not comparable; admitting of no comparison with others; unapproachably eminent; without a peer or equal; matchless; peerless; transcendent. A merchant of incomparable wealth. Shak. A new hypothesis . . . which hath the incomparable Sir Isaac Newton
• UNSEPARABLE
  Inseparable. "In love unseparable." Shak.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• PREPARABLE
  Capable of being prepared. "Medicine preparable by art." Boyle.
• INSEPARABLE
  Invariably attached to some word, stem, or root; as, the inseparable particle un-. (more info) 1. Not separable; incapable of being separated or disjoined. The history of every language is inseparable from that of the people by whom it is spoken.
• EQUIPARABLE
  Comparable.
• INSEPARABLENESS
  The quality or state of being inseparable; inseparability. Bp. Burnet.