parabolical
- a variation of parabolic.
Example Sentences
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The subjects of the pictures are allegorical, parabolical, and diabolical, the scenes being laid in heaven, hell, and mid-air.
From An American Girl Abroad by Trafton, Adeline
Our Lord's habitual language was parabolical; I use the word in a wide sense, to include all language which is not meant to be taken according to the letter.
From The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps by Arnold, Thomas
The poets who endeavor to place their poems on a par with the Scriptures overlook the fact that only the sacred writings can have an allegorical, parabolical or spiritual meaning.
From Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Clark, Donald Lemen
References to the same event, some plain, some parabolical, or otherwise figurative, are found in divers other discourses of our Lord.
From Evidence of Christianity by Paley, William
The ball ascended to the zenith in a parabolical curve, and was lost amongst the other planets.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 by Newell, Robert H.
