parablen.

Brit.

/ˈparəbl/, U.S.

/ˈpɛrəb(ə)l/

Forms: Middle English pable (transmission error), Middle English parabele, Middle English parabil, Middle English parabol, Middle English parabole, Middle English–1500s parabyl, Middle English–1500s parabyll, Middle English– parable, 1500s–1600s parrable, 1600s parabile; Scottish pre-1700 parabil, pre-1700 parabill, pre-1700 parabol, pre-1700 parabole, pre-1700 parrabile, pre-1700 1700s– parable, 1800s parbole.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French parable; Latin parabola.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French parable (late 12th cent. with reference to the Book of Proverbs), Old French, Middle French, French parabole (1265 with reference to the Book of Proverbs, 1269–78 in sense ‘moral, allegorical tale’) and its etymon classical Latin parabola comparison, in post-classical Latin also allegory, proverb, discourse, speech, talk (Vetus Latina; from early 3rd cent. in Tertullian; in Jerome (in plural) with reference to the Book of Proverbs) < ancient Greek παραβολή a placing side by side, comparison, analogy, in Hellenistic Greek also parable, proverb (New Testament, Septuagint) < παρα- para- prefix¹ + βολή casting, putting, a throw (see metabole n.). Compare Spanish parábola (1450), Italian parabola (a1342), Old High German parabola (Middle High German parabelle, German Parabel).Latin parabola developed into a variety of Romance words, a number of which are listed at parol n. and palaver n. Compare also parabola n., parole n.¹, parole n.², palabra n. With the Parables of Solomon compare post-classical Latin parabole (plural) the Book of Proverbs (late 12th cent., 15th cent. in British sources).

1. An allegorical or metaphorical saying or narrative; an allegory, a fable, an apologue; a comparison, a similitude. Also: a proverb, a maxim; an enigmatic or mystical saying (now archaic). Parables of Solomon n. now historical the Book of Proverbs.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > allegory > an allegory

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c1250 in Stud. Philol. (1931) 28 598 (MED) Of hem speket salomon in parabolis.

c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xlviii. 4 (MED) Y shal bowe myn ere in parabiles [v.r. ensaumples; a1400 Vesp. forbiseninge].

c1395 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 369 Been ther noone othere resemblaunces That ye may likne youre parables [v.r. parabele] to?

c1395 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 679 The Parables of Salomon, Ouydes art, and bokes many on..were bounden in o volume.

c1440 Sir Degrevant (Thornton) (1949) 1455 (MED) Þer men myght..Se..þe Pokalypps of John..The Parabylls of Salomone Paynted full righte.

a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 41 This forsothe is the same parable [a1500 Lamb. lyknesse; c1450 Royal ensampille] in wynter and somer.

c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 1987 (MED) Hit sownyd to me as a parable, Derke as a myste or a feynyd fable.

1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 101 A poete somtyme..Spekyng in parablis, how the fox, the grey, The gander,..Went with the pecok ageyne the fesaunt.

a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) Pref. sig. B3 All the ancient wisdome and science was wont to be delivered in that forme, as may bee seene by the parables of Solomon.

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. iv. 194 Accept of the Curates parabile, and his sentences in praise of a slender dyet as Modicum non nocet.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 500 A sin That Gentiles in thir Parables condemn.

1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub Pref. 14 This Parable was immediately mythologiz'd; The Whale was interpreted to be Hobs's Leviathan [etc.].

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 234 Moses and the Prophets wrote all in Parables.

1825 W. Scott Talisman x, in Tales Crusaders III. 238 I will reply with a parable told to me by a santon of the desert.

1881 Bible (R.V.) Luke iv. 23 Doubtless ye will say unto me this parable [c1384 Wycliffite, E.V. liknesse, 1526 Tyndale proverbe, 1582 Rheims similitude, 1611 King James proverbe], Physician, heal thyself.

1955 L. P. Hartley Perfect Woman (1959) 177 You remember the parable about the seven devils? Well, that's my state.

2004 N. McDonald Pulp Fictions Medieval Eng. iv. 96 In Melidor's chamber the Epistles of Paul and the parables of Solomon may exist as text rather than image—the wording is ambiguous.

2. spec.

a. A (usually realistic) story or narrative told to convey a moral or spiritual lesson or insight; esp. one told by Jesus in the Gospels. (Now the usual sense.)

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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > New Testament > parable > [noun]

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > parable, allegory, or apologue > [noun]

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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xiii. 3 Jhesus..spak to hem many thingis in parablis [L. parabolis].

c1400 Prose Versions New Test.: Heb. (Selwyn) (1904) xi. 19 (MED) God is myȝty to areren up men from deþ to lyf, Wherfore he vnderfong hym in a parable.

a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 352 Þus spekiþ Crist..of dette in þe Pater Noster, and also in o parable, bi which he moveþ men to mercy.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xiii. 10 Why speakest thou to them in parables? 13 Therefore speake y to them in similitudes. 18 Heare ye therfore the similitude [Rheims and 1611 parable] off the sower.

c1586 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 248 His [sc. Christ's] pithie prudent parabols.

1611 Bible (King James) Luke xiv. (heading) Vnder the parable of the great supper, sheweth how worldly minded men..shalbe shut out of heauen.

1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 376 The Foundation of all Parables, is..some Analogy or Similitude between the Tropical, or Allusive part of the Parable, and the Thing couched under it.

1702 Eng. Theophrastus 164 Naked lessons and precepts have nothing the force that Images and Parables have upon our minds.

1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc iv. 208 Or rather sing thou of that wealthy Lord, Who took the ewe lamb from the poor man's bosom,..This parable would I tell,..And look at thee and say, ‘Thou art the man!’

1841 R. C. Trench Parables (1877) i. 2 The parable is constructed to set forth a truth spiritual and heavenly: this the fable, with all its value, is not.

1882 A. B. Bruce (title) The parabolic teaching of Christ, a systematic and critical study of the parables of Our Lord.

1904 J. London Sea-wolf x. 100 Hump, do you know the parable of the sower who went forth to sow?

1991 Dissent Winter 112/1 I saw the film as a parable about innocent love in a world of trauma.

b. Chiefly Irish English. Something that may be pointed to as an example or illustration, an exemplary case; a model, a lesson.Recorded by N.E.D. (1904) as being in use near Drumcondra in Ireland c1880.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > a pattern or model of conduct

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1894 ‘I. Maclaren’ Beside Bonnie Brier Bush vi. ii. 218 ‘Man,’ says Mactavish,..‘You are just a Parable, oh yes, just a Parable.’

1900 Cent. Mag. Feb. 601 He had his three acres in such rotation as a flower garden, his wee patch a parable to the counthry [sic].

1967 M. J. Molloy Visiting House ii, in R. Hogan Seven Irish Plays 92 Punish him well. Don't spare your shoe leather. Make a parable of him.

1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 247/1 Parable, a model, an exemplary person or thing e.g. He's a parable to all.

†3. A scornful speech, a taunt. Also: an object of scorn. Obsolete.

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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > object of contempt

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Aunt Sally1859

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > reproach > [noun] > instance of

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c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) lxviii. 14 (MED) Ich made þe haire my cloþyng, and ich am made to hem into pables [read parables].

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Isa. xiv. 4 Þou shalt take þis parable aȝen þe king of babiloyne & seyn, ‘what maner ceside þe pletere?’

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xxiv. 9 I shal ȝyuen hem..in to repref & in to parable & in to prouerbe & in to cursing.

1611 Bible (King James) Hab. ii. 6 Shal not all these take vp a parable against him, and a tanting prouerbe against him, and say; Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his!

Phrases

† to take up (one's) parable (in Middle English †to take (to) one's parable) [after post-classical Latin assumptaque parabola sua (Vulgate, Numbers 23:7), etc.] : to begin to speak. Obsolete.Apparently only in biblical translations before the mid 19th cent.

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the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > begin to speak

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to set spell on enda1300

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to take up (one's) parablea1382

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to lug out1787

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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Num. xxiii. 7 He..take-to his parable [a1425 L.V. And whanne his parable was takun].

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xxvii. 1 Also Job addide, takinge his parable, & seiþ, ‘God lyueþ þat tooc awei my dom.’

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Num. xxiii. 7 He toke vp his parable and sayed: ryse vpp Balac.

1535 M. Coverdale Num. xxiii.7 Then toke he [sc. Balaam] vp his parable, & sayde [etc.].

1611 Bible (King James) Num. xxiii. 7 And he tooke vp his parable, and said [etc.] .

1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral i. 5 In due time, the learned took up their parable.

1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country 59 Thus opportunely took up parable.

1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 117 Then the clerically-dressed gentleman took up his parable.

Compounds

C1. General attributive and objective with reference to works of art, etc., which are parables or are intended to convey a moral lesson, or to the authors of such works, as parable-opera, parable-play, parable-poem, parable-poet, parable-writer, etc.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > narrative poem > [noun] > other types of narrative poem

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > parable, allegory, or apologue > [noun] > writer or teller of

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1884 Athenæum 6 Dec. 725/1 [They] can only be described as parable-poems.

1884 Athenæum 6 Dec. 727/3 The current of the story with the Western parable-writer moves too rapidly.

1902 J. B. Bilderbeck Chaucer's Legend Good Women 86 Parable-reading, though full of attractions, has its limitations and dangers.

1904 N.E.D. at Parable Parable-poet.

1935 W. H. Auden in G. Grigson Arts To-Day 20 There must always be two kinds of art, escape-art..and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.

1941 L. MacNeice Poetry of Yeats 187 Thirdly, there are those plays which are near to fable or which might be called parable-plays—The King's Threshold (1904).

1957 Stud. in Renaissance 4 45 In the parable plays it assumed large proportions.

1976 National Observer (U.S.) 18 Dec. 18/1 Britten composed in almost all the musical forms available to him—and even invented one, the parable opera, such as Curlew River and The Prodigal Son, in which a moral lesson was set forth in direct and easily assimilable musical terms.

C2.

parable people n. (a) a people given to telling parables as a means of illustrating or clarifying moral principles; (b) the people whose actions are narrated in a parable.

ΚΠ

1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. iv. 77 We Jews are a parable people.

1968 Amer. Lit. 39 579 Wilder deals with pageant and process, and his people are parable people.

1980 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 17 July 22 The parable-people in Plato's cave.

Derivatives

ˈparable-like adj. reminiscent of a parable.

ΚΠ

a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 240 His speeches had been hitherto darke and parable-like.

a1953 H. Belloc in Dict. National Biogr. (1993) 84/2 These parable-like tales obtain their effect of subtle humour and philosophy by the adaptation of Chinese conventions to the English tongue.

1991 M. Pearce Mamur Zapt & Night of Dog (BNC) 99 He was expounding a Sura, one of the parable-like stories of the Koran.

ˈparable-wise adv. rare by way of a parable.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adverb] > allegorically

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1573 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalipse (rev. ed.) xlviii. f. 149^v It is in parablewyse, and in way of comparison, that this citie is called Sodome and Egypt.

1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. D The most bee fables, yet parrable-wyse conteynynge greate misteryes.

1948 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 69 125 One who addressed his work, parable-wise, to the generations of the future.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	parable
释义	parablen. Brit. /ˈparəbl/, U.S. /ˈpɛrəb(ə)l/ Forms: Middle English pable (transmission error), Middle English parabele, Middle English parabil, Middle English parabol, Middle English parabole, Middle English–1500s parabyl, Middle English–1500s parabyll, Middle English– parable, 1500s–1600s parrable, 1600s parabile; Scottish pre-1700 parabil, pre-1700 parabill, pre-1700 parabol, pre-1700 parabole, pre-1700 parrabile, pre-1700 1700s– parable, 1800s parbole. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French parable; Latin parabola. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French parable (late 12th cent. with reference to the Book of Proverbs), Old French, Middle French, French parabole (1265 with reference to the Book of Proverbs, 1269–78 in sense ‘moral, allegorical tale’) and its etymon classical Latin parabola comparison, in post-classical Latin also allegory, proverb, discourse, speech, talk (Vetus Latina; from early 3rd cent. in Tertullian; in Jerome (in plural) with reference to the Book of Proverbs) < ancient Greek παραβολή a placing side by side, comparison, analogy, in Hellenistic Greek also parable, proverb (New Testament, Septuagint) < παρα- para- prefix¹ + βολή casting, putting, a throw (see metabole n.). Compare Spanish parábola (1450), Italian parabola (a1342), Old High German parabola (Middle High German parabelle, German Parabel).Latin parabola developed into a variety of Romance words, a number of which are listed at parol n. and palaver n. Compare also parabola n., parole n.¹, parole n.², palabra n. With the Parables of Solomon compare post-classical Latin parabole (plural) the Book of Proverbs (late 12th cent., 15th cent. in British sources). 1. An allegorical or metaphorical saying or narrative; an allegory, a fable, an apologue; a comparison, a similitude. Also: a proverb, a maxim; an enigmatic or mystical saying (now archaic). Parables of Solomon n. now historical the Book of Proverbs. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > allegory > an allegory likenessc1175 parablec1250 proverbc1384 similitudea1425 allegoryc1450 semblable1547 allusion1548 mythology1603 parabolic1829 c1250 in Stud. Philol. (1931) 28 598 (MED) Of hem speket salomon in parabolis. c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xlviii. 4 (MED) Y shal bowe myn ere in parabiles [v.r. ensaumples; a1400 Vesp. forbiseninge]. c1395 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 369 Been ther noone othere resemblaunces That ye may likne youre parables [v.r. parabele] to? c1395 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 679 The Parables of Salomon, Ouydes art, and bokes many on..were bounden in o volume. c1440 Sir Degrevant (Thornton) (1949) 1455 (MED) Þer men myght..Se..þe Pokalypps of John..The Parabylls of Salomone Paynted full righte. a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 41 This forsothe is the same parable [a1500 Lamb. lyknesse; c1450 Royal ensampille] in wynter and somer. c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 1987 (MED) Hit sownyd to me as a parable, Derke as a myste or a feynyd fable. 1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 101 A poete somtyme..Spekyng in parablis, how the fox, the grey, The gander,..Went with the pecok ageyne the fesaunt. a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) Pref. sig. B3 All the ancient wisdome and science was wont to be delivered in that forme, as may bee seene by the parables of Solomon. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. iv. 194 Accept of the Curates parabile, and his sentences in praise of a slender dyet as Modicum non nocet. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 500 A sin That Gentiles in thir Parables condemn. View more context for this quotation 1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub Pref. 14 This Parable was immediately mythologiz'd; The Whale was interpreted to be Hobs's Leviathan [etc.]. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 234 Moses and the Prophets wrote all in Parables. 1825 W. Scott Talisman x, in Tales Crusaders III. 238 I will reply with a parable told to me by a santon of the desert. 1881 Bible (R.V.) Luke iv. 23 Doubtless ye will say unto me this parable [c1384 Wycliffite, E.V. liknesse, 1526 Tyndale proverbe, 1582 Rheims similitude, 1611 King James proverbe], Physician, heal thyself. 1955 L. P. Hartley Perfect Woman (1959) 177 You remember the parable about the seven devils? Well, that's my state. 2004 N. McDonald Pulp Fictions Medieval Eng. iv. 96 In Melidor's chamber the Epistles of Paul and the parables of Solomon may exist as text rather than image—the wording is ambiguous. 2. spec. a. A (usually realistic) story or narrative told to convey a moral or spiritual lesson or insight; esp. one told by Jesus in the Gospels. (Now the usual sense.) ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > New Testament > parable > [noun] parablec1384 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > parable, allegory, or apologue > [noun] byspelc950 by-talea1300 forbyseninga1300 fable1340 parablec1384 similitudea1425 examplec1425 allegoryc1450 problema1500 apologuea1555 byworda1557 mythology1603 Aesopism1845 exemplum1883 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xiii. 3 Jhesus..spak to hem many thingis in parablis [L. parabolis]. c1400 Prose Versions New Test.: Heb. (Selwyn) (1904) xi. 19 (MED) God is myȝty to areren up men from deþ to lyf, Wherfore he vnderfong hym in a parable. a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 352 Þus spekiþ Crist..of dette in þe Pater Noster, and also in o parable, bi which he moveþ men to mercy. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xiii. 10 Why speakest thou to them in parables? 13 Therefore speake y to them in similitudes. 18 Heare ye therfore the similitude [Rheims and 1611 parable] off the sower. c1586 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 248 His [sc. Christ's] pithie prudent parabols. 1611 Bible (King James) Luke xiv. (heading) Vnder the parable of the great supper, sheweth how worldly minded men..shalbe shut out of heauen. 1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 376 The Foundation of all Parables, is..some Analogy or Similitude between the Tropical, or Allusive part of the Parable, and the Thing couched under it. 1702 Eng. Theophrastus 164 Naked lessons and precepts have nothing the force that Images and Parables have upon our minds. 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc iv. 208 Or rather sing thou of that wealthy Lord, Who took the ewe lamb from the poor man's bosom,..This parable would I tell,..And look at thee and say, ‘Thou art the man!’ 1841 R. C. Trench Parables (1877) i. 2 The parable is constructed to set forth a truth spiritual and heavenly: this the fable, with all its value, is not. 1882 A. B. Bruce (title) The parabolic teaching of Christ, a systematic and critical study of the parables of Our Lord. 1904 J. London Sea-wolf x. 100 Hump, do you know the parable of the sower who went forth to sow? 1991 Dissent Winter 112/1 I saw the film as a parable about innocent love in a world of trauma. b. Chiefly Irish English. Something that may be pointed to as an example or illustration, an exemplary case; a model, a lesson.Recorded by N.E.D. (1904) as being in use near Drumcondra in Ireland c1880. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > a pattern or model of conduct bysenc950 ensample1297 mirrora1300 ensamplerc1374 examplea1382 foregoer1382 exemplara1393 essamplerie1393 forbyseninga1400 patternc1425 spectaclec1430 precedent1535 spectable1535 foregoinga1586 modela1586 copya1616 leading card1635 patron saint1803 fugleman1814 fore-mark1863 parable1894 1894 ‘I. Maclaren’ Beside Bonnie Brier Bush vi. ii. 218 ‘Man,’ says Mactavish,..‘You are just a Parable, oh yes, just a Parable.’ 1900 Cent. Mag. Feb. 601 He had his three acres in such rotation as a flower garden, his wee patch a parable to the counthry [sic]. 1967 M. J. Molloy Visiting House ii, in R. Hogan Seven Irish Plays 92 Punish him well. Don't spare your shoe leather. Make a parable of him. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 247/1 Parable, a model, an exemplary person or thing e.g. He's a parable to all. †3. A scornful speech, a taunt. Also: an object of scorn. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > object of contempt despitea1340 parablec1350 reproofa1382 scorn1535 reproach1560 scorning-stocka1586 contempt1589 taunt1611 contemptible1654 Aunt Sally1859 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > reproach > [noun] > instance of upbraida1200 parablec1350 abraid?a1439 taunt?1499 tench1513 touch1522 exprobration1526 checka1529 twit1528 upbray1590 reproach1611 upcast1669 slow clap1937 c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) lxviii. 14 (MED) Ich made þe haire my cloþyng, and ich am made to hem into pables [read parables]. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Isa. xiv. 4 Þou shalt take þis parable aȝen þe king of babiloyne & seyn, ‘what maner ceside þe pletere?’ a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xxiv. 9 I shal ȝyuen hem..in to repref & in to parable & in to prouerbe & in to cursing. 1611 Bible (King James) Hab. ii. 6 Shal not all these take vp a parable against him, and a tanting prouerbe against him, and say; Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! View more context for this quotation Phrases † to take up (one's) parable (in Middle English †to take (to) one's parable) [after post-classical Latin assumptaque parabola sua (Vulgate, Numbers 23:7), etc.] : to begin to speak. Obsolete.Apparently only in biblical translations before the mid 19th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > begin to speak upbreakc1275 to set spell on enda1300 gina1333 to take up (one's) parablea1382 braidc1400 to take up the word1477 begin1563 exordiate1594 to speak upa1723 to lug out1787 to speak out1792 upspeak1827 exordize1887 shoot1915 open1926 to come in1949 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Num. xxiii. 7 He..take-to his parable [a1425 L.V. And whanne his parable was takun]. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xxvii. 1 Also Job addide, takinge his parable, & seiþ, ‘God lyueþ þat tooc awei my dom.’ 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Num. xxiii. 7 He toke vp his parable and sayed: ryse vpp Balac. 1535 M. Coverdale Num. xxiii.7 Then toke he [sc. Balaam] vp his parable, & sayde [etc.]. 1611 Bible (King James) Num. xxiii. 7 And he tooke vp his parable, and said [etc.] . View more context for this quotation 1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral i. 5 In due time, the learned took up their parable. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country 59 Thus opportunely took up parable. 1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 117 Then the clerically-dressed gentleman took up his parable. Compounds C1. General attributive and objective with reference to works of art, etc., which are parables or are intended to convey a moral lesson, or to the authors of such works, as parable-opera, parable-play, parable-poem, parable-poet, parable-writer, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > narrative poem > [noun] > other types of narrative poem comedya1413 tragica1679 lai1774 fabliau1804 dream poem1850 parable-poem1884 dream vision1906 corrido1911 toast1962 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > parable, allegory, or apologue > [noun] > writer or teller of fabler1382 fabulist1593 apologer1624 parabolist1651 allegorizer1677 parabolizer1691 allegorist1754 allegorister1841 parable-writer1884 1884 Athenæum 6 Dec. 725/1 [They] can only be described as parable-poems. 1884 Athenæum 6 Dec. 727/3 The current of the story with the Western parable-writer moves too rapidly. 1902 J. B. Bilderbeck Chaucer's Legend Good Women 86 Parable-reading, though full of attractions, has its limitations and dangers. 1904 N.E.D. at Parable Parable-poet. 1935 W. H. Auden in G. Grigson Arts To-Day 20 There must always be two kinds of art, escape-art..and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love. 1941 L. MacNeice Poetry of Yeats 187 Thirdly, there are those plays which are near to fable or which might be called parable-plays—The King's Threshold (1904). 1957 Stud. in Renaissance 4 45 In the parable plays it assumed large proportions. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 18 Dec. 18/1 Britten composed in almost all the musical forms available to him—and even invented one, the parable opera, such as Curlew River and The Prodigal Son, in which a moral lesson was set forth in direct and easily assimilable musical terms. C2. parable people n. (a) a people given to telling parables as a means of illustrating or clarifying moral principles; (b) the people whose actions are narrated in a parable. ΚΠ 1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. iv. 77 We Jews are a parable people. 1968 Amer. Lit. 39 579 Wilder deals with pageant and process, and his people are parable people. 1980 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 17 July 22 The parable-people in Plato's cave. Derivatives ˈparable-like adj. reminiscent of a parable. ΚΠ a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 240 His speeches had been hitherto darke and parable-like. a1953 H. Belloc in Dict. National Biogr. (1993) 84/2 These parable-like tales obtain their effect of subtle humour and philosophy by the adaptation of Chinese conventions to the English tongue. 1991 M. Pearce Mamur Zapt & Night of Dog (BNC) 99 He was expounding a Sura, one of the parable-like stories of the Koran. ˈparable-wise adv. rare by way of a parable. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adverb] > allegorically parablyc1384 secretlyc1430 allegorically1538 parable-wise1573 mystically1586 parabolically1615 Aesopically1960 1573 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalipse (rev. ed.) xlviii. f. 149^v It is in parablewyse, and in way of comparison, that this citie is called Sodome and Egypt. 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. D The most bee fables, yet parrable-wyse conteynynge greate misteryes. 1948 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 69 125 One who addressed his work, parable-wise, to the generations of the future. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † parableadj. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin parābilis. Etymology: < classical Latin parābilis obtainable, procurable < parāre to prepare, procure (see pare v.¹) + -bilis -ble suffix. Compare Middle French parable (late 14th cent. in an apparently isolated attestation). Obsolete. Able to be readily prepared, procured, or got; procurable. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > [adjective] > feasible openOE possiblec1384 doablec1443 feasiblec1460 agible?a1475 performable1548 parable1563 practiceable1570 compassable1581 factible1585 effectuable1590 practicable1593 exploitable1611 achievable1634 effectible1646 operable1646 accomplishable1657 perpetrable1680 workable1756 executable1796 expeditable1820 workable1822 powerable1860 runnable1860 manageable1866 actable1876 viable1955 the mind > possession > acquisition > [adjective] > obtained or acquired > able to be procurablec1449 purveyable1542 gettable1553 extant1555 parable1563 acquirable1606 gainable1611 purchasable1611 obtainablea1617 acquisitive1629 haveable1639 producible1640 come-at-able?1685 derivablea1711 attainable1712 embraceable1841 graspable1868 securable1876 1563 G. Hay Confut. Abbote of Crosraguels Masse f. 59^v He appointed the signes of bread and wyne..as..commonly moste parable and easy to be obteined. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xix. 81 I haue kept Galenes rule in chusing these exercises, and that they be all both pleasant, profitable and parable. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. v. i. v. 471 It [sc. wine] is a most easie and parable remedy. 1666 Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 237 This statical baroscope will oftentimes be more parable, than the other. a1691 R. Boyle Medicinal Exper. (1692) I. Pref. sig. A5 Receipts that being Parable or Cheap, may easily be made servicable to poor Country People. 1736 Compl. Family-piece i. i. 58 A parable but excellent Medicine in..the Stone. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2021). parablev. Brit. /ˈparəbl/, U.S. /ˈpɛrəb(ə)l/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymon: parable n. Etymology: < parable n., after post-classical Latin parabolizare parabolize v. Compare post-classical Latin parabolare to make clear by metaphors (9th cent.; 7th cent. in sense ‘to speak’). Compare later parabolize v. †1. intransitive. To compose or utter a parable; to speak in parables. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > parable, allegory, or apologue > tell or create parables or apologues [verb (intransitive)] parable1571 fabulize1612 fabulate1616 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xlix. 4) i. f. 190/2 That is to say, Riddle thou in riddle, and parable thou in parable [L. paraboliza parabola]. 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 7 437 My store of praise would never fail, Tho' I should parable till I were old. 2. transitive. To represent or express by means of a parable, allegory, or simile. Usually in passive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > parable, allegory, or apologue > relate as parable or apologue [verb (transitive)] parabolize1602 fabulate1624 parable1644 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > express with figure of meaning [verb (transitive)] > express allegorically parabolize1602 parable1644 moralize1652 1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 14 That was chiefly meant, which by the ancient Sages was thus parabl'd. 1860 Ladies' Repository Aug. 493/1 The mind can not conceive of what it has never seen except it be parabled by something similar. 1884 G. F. Pentecost Out of Egypt iii. 54 That sign which to my mind it parables or typifies. 1914 W. S. Blunt Griselda in Poet. Wks. I. i. 208 I do but parable the crowd I know. 1982 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 66 108/1 Abuse of the Indian..is parabled in the confrontation between a reformist priest (good) and a police chief (evil). 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