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parabolist|pəˈræbəlɪst|
[f. Gr. παραβολή (L. parabola) parable, parabola + -ist.]
1. One who narrates, uses, or deals in any way with, parables or parabole.
1651H. More Second Lash in Enthus. Tri., etc. (1656) 196 Now my pretty Parabolist, what is there left to make your similitude good?
2. One who deals with the parabola; in quot. ‘a partisan of the parabola’: cf. hyperbolist 2. nonce-use.
1831I. Taylor Logic in Theol. (1859) 42 The partisans of the ellipsis, the parabola, and the hyperbola... The parabolists..believing themselves qualified to act as mediators..would gravely say much that was very plausible. |