Of the nature of a parable; expressed by a parable or figure; allegorical; as, parabolical instruction.
If really this parabolical method had been peculiarly intelligible, what could make them imagine the contrary?
Christian divines are used to tell us that this mode was peculiarly instructive to the vulgar of Judæa; and they insist on the great wisdom displayed in his choice of the lucid parabolical style.
And it is plain that the points I, F, H, are in the same parabolical line BIFH.
An elegant result which Galileo also deduced from this theory, is that the form of such a beam, to be equally strong in every part, should be that of a parabolical prism, the vertex of the parabola being the farthest removed from the wall.
That fact was evident, but perhaps that would not have been the case in a rigidly parabolical course.
Where, I pray you, is my body to be, Sir, whilst my soul dwelleth in your parabolical city?
I did never walk yet o'er a parabolical paving, nor sat me down to rest me of an allegorical chair.
Methinks I have walked for some years o'er a parabolical paving, and rested me in many an allegorical chair.
Therefore, for the Honour of Jesus, let us look upon the whole Story as a typical and parabolical Representation of what would be mysteriously and more wonderfully done by him.
Whether the Clergy will like this parabolical Explication of it, I neither know nor care.
In the mean time I shall think it, literally, an absurd, improbable, and incredible one, and no other than a prophetical and parabolical Narrative of what will be mysteriously and more wonderfully done by Jesus.
Talk of Satan and the Devil, but less of his Nature apprehended, before Christ by his Parables and parabolical Miracles, rightly interpreted, instructed us in it.
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