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‖ parapherna, n. pl.|pærəˈfɜːnə|
[L. parapherna pl. (in the Digest), a. Gr. παράϕερνα pl., f. παρα- beside + ϕερνή dower.]
1. Rom. Law. Those articles of property held by a wife over and above the dowry she brought to her husband, and which remained under her own control; see paraphernalia 1.
1706Phillips, Parapherna or Paraphernalia Bona (Gr.), those Goods that a Wife brings her Husband over and above her Dower, as Furniture for her Chamber, wearing Apparel, Jewels, etc. 1727–41in Chambers Cycl.
2. = paraphernalia 2.
1876Bartholow Mat. Med. (1879) 363 None of the parapherna of the operation..should be exhibited before the patient. 1890Edin. Rev. CLXXI. 480 A succession of names and a series of disguises were of necessity part of the parapherna of every Jesuit father. |