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Meaning of "parabasis" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PARABASIS

From Greek, from parabanein to step forward.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PARABASIS

parabasis  [pəˈræbəsɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PARABASIS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Parabasis is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PARABASIS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Parabasis

In Greek comedy, the parabasis is a point in the play when all of the actors leave the stage and the chorus is left to address the audience directly. The chorus partially or completely abandons its dramatic role to talk to the audience on a topic completely irrelevant to the subject of the play. For example, in the play The Wasps by Aristophanes the first parabasis is about Aristophanes' career as a playwright to date, while the second parabasis is shorter, and contains a string of in-jokes about local characters who would be well known to the ancient Athenian audience. A parabasis usually consists of three songs alternating with three speeches in the order S-s-S-s-S-s. The first speech often ends with a passage which is to be rattled off very quickly. The parabasis is exclusively a feature of Old Comedy, and after the parabasis was abandoned the role of the chorus declined.

Definition of parabasis in the English dictionary

The definition of parabasis in the dictionary is an address from the chorus to the audience.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PARABASIS


amebiasis
əmiːˈbaɪəsɪs
anabasis
əˈnæbəsɪs
candidiasis
ˌkændɪˈdaɪəsɪs
catabasis
kəˈtæbəsɪs
diocese
ˈdaɪəsɪs
elephantiasis
ˌɛlɪfənˈtaɪəsɪs
embryogenesis
ˌɛmbrɪəʊˈdʒɛnəsɪs
emphasis
ˈɛmfəsɪs
epistasis
ɪˈpɪstəsɪs
giardiasis
ˌdʒaɪɑːˈdaɪəsɪs
katabasis
kəˈtæbəsɪs
metabasis
meˈtæbəsɪs
metamorphosis
ˌmɛtəˈmɔːfəsɪs
metastasis
mɪˈtæstəsɪs
metathesis
mɪˈtæθəsɪs
psoriasis
səˈraɪəsɪs
Tamesis
ˈtæməsɪs
transgenesis
trænzˈdʒɛnəsɪs
trypanosomiasis
ˌtrɪpənəsəˈmaɪəsɪs
urolithiasis
ˌjʊərəʊlɪˈθaɪəsɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PARABASIS

parabaptism
parabases
parabema
parabematic
paraben
parabiosis
parabiotic
parabiotically
parablast
parablastic
parable
parablepsis
parablepsy
parableptic
parabola
parabolanus
parabole
parabolic
parabolic aerial
parabolical

WORDS THAT END LIKE PARABASIS

anastasis
ascariasis
basis
filariasis
gold basis
haemostasis
helminthiasis
hemostasis
homeostasis
hypochondriasis
hypostasis
leishmaniasis
mydriasis
oasis
onchocerciasis
overemphasis
schistosomiasis
stasis
strongyloidiasis
trial basis

Synonyms and antonyms of parabasis in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «parabasis» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PARABASIS

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The translations of parabasis from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «parabasis» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

parabasis
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parábasis
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parábase
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parabasis
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Parabasis
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Parabase
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parabasis
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parabasis
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Parabasis
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parabasis
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parabasis
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पॅराबासिस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

parabasis
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parabasi
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parabasis
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parabasis
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parabasis
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Translator English - Greek

Παράβασις
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Translator English - Afrikaans

parabasis
14 millions of speakers
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parabasis
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parabasis
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of parabasis

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PARABASIS»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PARABASIS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about parabasis

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARABASIS»

Discover the use of parabasis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to parabasis and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Clouds
The Chorus dismiss him with good wishes, preparatory to coming forward in the parabasis. The dismissal of the sausage-seller before the parabasis in Eq. 498, is rather similar iXK t8i x«'p"'i Ka^ vpdgcias Karb vovv rbv ifibv, k.t.A. 518 — 563.
Aristophane, William Charles Green, 1868
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The Facts on File Companion to Classical Drama
No actors were onstage during the parabasis. The only surviving examples of the parabasis appear in ARISTOPHANES' plays, and two of his plays, KNIGHTS and BIRDS, contain two parabases. Some Aristophanic plays do not contain a ...
John E. Thorburn, 2005
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Aristophanic poetry
The men's answer (1022-1023) shows that this is literally the tunic which they stripped away in anger at the start of the parabasis (662). But on a symbolic level the clothing of the people by the women fulfills Lysis- trata's earlier metaphorical  ...
Carroll Moulton, 1981
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Socrates and Aristophanes
While the gods pass judgment indoors on the divinity of Dionysos and Xanthias, the chorus stages the parabasis. The parabasis of the Frogs, as distinguished from the parabaseis of the other plays, consists of all parts of the normal parabasis ...
Leo Strauss, 1966
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Aristophanes and the Carnival of Genres
By introducing into the text a kind of radical uncertainty, however, the parabasis also limits the degree to which it can be used effectively as evidence concerning the intentions of the author; parabatic assertions cannot be said to have any ...
Charles Platter, 2006
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The Reception of Laurence Sterne in Europe
Schlegel defined parabasis as a speech that was held in the middle of an Attic comedy 'by the chorus and directed at the people on behalf of the author'.The definition agrees almost exactly with OED's definition of 'parabasis': 'In ancient Greek ...
Peter Jan de Voogd, John Neubauer, 2004
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Others
The way Schlegelian irony radically disrupts or "brutally interrupts]" (AI, 179) this solemnity and intelligibility is what de Man means by going one step beyond Schlegel's definition of irony as permanent parabasis and calling it "the permanent ...
Joseph Hillis Miller, 2001
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Aristophanes 1: Clouds, Wasps, Birds
Parabasis: This is perhaps the most curious and formal feature of Old Comedy. It is sung by the chorus with the actors offstage, directed to the audience, and comes at a natural break in the action, often just before or just after an agon. As with ...
Aristophanes, Peter Meineck, 1998
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The Poet's Voice: Essays on Poetics and Greek Literature
The specificity and consistency of this parabasis have resulted in it being seen as a perfect example of what the chorus announces to be its role (686-7): TOV iepov xopov 8iKaiov £cm xpr|<*ta tfj TtoXei f;uHTtapaiveiv KOU 8i5dtaKeiv. It is right ...
‎1991
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McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama: An International ...
Neoclassical drama in England and France, also utilized this technique. parabasis That moment during ancient Greek comedies when the chorus turns directly to the audience to digress on a variety of topics while the main action of the play is ...
Stanley Hochman, 1984

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PARABASIS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term parabasis is used in the context of the following news items.
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'Too Many Cooks': Lowball Sitcom Parody Morphs Into Existential …
CC: @mhrowe @robbstlawrence http://t.co/qt4rlf7dSf. — Isaac Butler (@parabasis) November 7, 2014. So what even is this "Too Many Cooks"? «Indie Wire, Nov 14»
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'#Cloud$' to bring Aristophanes into 21st century
Johnson used the play's parabasis―a monologue given directly to the audience―to describe her frustration with the situation and how it ... «CU Columbia Spectator, Oct 14»
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High Octane Singing From Gerhaher: Great Is Great
... Gerhaher dug deeply into loneliness and longing and the philosophical paradox, posed in Rihm's “Parabasis,” that “the great is little, the little ... «San Francisco Classical Voice, Oct 14»
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Giorgos Karamihos Directs Hollywood Play 'Isle of Slaves'
Following the example of ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes, six true slavery stories work as a parabasis (infraction) in the on-stage ... «Greek Reporter, Oct 14»
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$100 a pop? No big deal for tickets to popular DC shows
Naysaying has flared in the Twitterverse and blogosphere (follow on Howlround, 2AMt, Parabasis, Jumper). Not-for-profit's moral crisis ... «Washington Post, Mar 12»
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A Scrupulous Fidelity, On Thomas Bernhard's The Loser
... irony which is the cunning use of dissimulation to make a point; and 2) the ancient Greek dramatic device of parabasis, the moment when the ... «Brooklyn Rail, Feb 12»
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The great white rip-off!
“It's just like the airlines,” says Isaac Butler, who writes the theater blog Parabasis. “They try to charge as much as the market will bear. «New York Post, Jul 11»
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In Defense of Literature?
Jusdanis also points towards what he sees as a crucial formal feature of literature – parabasis. Parabasis is a term that dates all the way back to ... «GlobalComment.com, Apr 11»
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Le chœur dans les luttes d'Aristophane. Rôle et évolution des …
The Agon, a part of the comedy pattern, occupied the first half of the play between the Parodos and the Parabasis: it is the battle field of Old comedy. The Chorus ... «Revues.org, Feb 11»
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Theater Reviews: American Dollhouse, State of Incarceration, Smudge
While this sequence drags, it undeniably provides the expository Parabasis, skewering prison conditions and laws such as "three strikes" that ... «LA Weekly, Feb 11»

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