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   Parable , a. [L. parabilis, fr. parare to provide.] Procurable. [Obs.]
   Sir T. Browne.
   
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   Parable, n. [F. parabole, L. parabola, fr. Gr.  a placing beside or together, a comparing, comparison, a parable, fr.  to throw beside, compare; παρά beside +  to throw; cf. Skr. gal to drop. Cf. Emblem, Gland, Palaver, Parabola, Parley, Parabole, Symbol.] A comparison; a similitude; specifically, a short fictitious narrative of something which might really occur in life or nature, by means of which a moral is drawn; as, the parables of Christ.
   Chaucer.
   
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   Declare unto us the parable of the tares.
   Matt. xiii. 36.
   
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   Syn. -- See Allegory, and Note under Apologue.
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   Parable, v. t. To represent by parable. [R.]
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   Which by the ancient sages was thus parabled.
   Milton.
   
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