parabolic
adjective
having the form or outline of a parabola.
parabolical
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a variation of
parabolic.
Example Sentences
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If really this parabolical method had been peculiarly intelligible, what could make them imagine the contrary?
From Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed by Francis William Newman
The discourses of Jesus in the Synoptics are simple, although parabolical; in the Fourth they are mystical, and are being continually misunderstood by the people.
From The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Annie Wood Besant
In so doing I employed the parabolical method of savages.
From Bureaucracy by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
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 Donald Lemen Clark
They have both put great dependence upon certain figurative and parabolical expressions, or passages of Scripture, which they explain so as to cause them to allude to such an event.
From Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou by Maturin Murray Ballou
