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Meaning of "parabolanus" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PARABOLANUS

ˌpærəbəʊˈleɪnəs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PARABOLANUS

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Parabolanus is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PARABOLANUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Parabalani

The Parabalani, or Parabolani, were the members of a Christian brotherhood who in the Early Church voluntarily undertook the care of the sick and the burial of the dead, thus hoping to die for Christ. Generally drawn from the lower strata of society, they also functioned as attendants to local bishops and were sometimes used by them as bodyguards and in violent clashes with their opponents.

Definition of parabolanus in the English dictionary

The definition of parabolanus in the dictionary is a member of an early Christian brotherhood in Alexandria and Constantinople who helped the sick in the times of plague.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PARABOLANUS

antoninianus · anus · awayness · Coriolanus · Cusanus · everydayness · farawayness · feyness · heinous · indigenous · Janus · manus · migrainous · minus · pandanus · Regiomontanus · Silvanus · Sylvanus · Uranus · veinous

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PARABOLANUS

parabiotically · parablast · parablastic · parable · parablepsis · parablepsy · parableptic · parabola · parabole · parabolic · parabolic aerial · parabolical · parabolically · parabolisation · parabolise · parabolist · parabolization · parabolize · paraboloid · paraboloidal

WORDS THAT END LIKE PARABOLANUS

alumnus · bonus · Cygnus · Dardanus · digitus manus · Dominus · Eridanus · Gambrinus · genus · Linus · Oceanus · onus · prunus · Quirinus · sinus · sturnus · terminus · tetanus · tonus · Venus

Synonyms and antonyms of parabolanus in the English dictionary of synonyms

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARABOLANUS»

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Alchemy: Dangers and Difficulties in Its Pursuit
THIS 22 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Theosophical Siftings: A Collection of Essays, by Theosophical Publishing Society . To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 076612990X.
Publish Theosophical Publishing Society, Parabolanus, 2010
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Tales and sketches of Christian life in different lands and ...
... the honest, though somewhat hard-won affection of Philip ; the watchful kindness of Dioscoros, whom his father used to call his young Parabolanus,* because he so loved to help and watch the sick ; the caresses of his little pet Alce — these, ...
Elizabeth Charles, 1850
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An historical essay on the state of physick in the old and ...
7. Oflaanssig ejusqz in eum Not. 1. ex Edit. Suren/aas, Vol. 2. p. 192. 89' Maim. c. in loc. Sloerin la in Yamzz, Hid. 1648, And therefore had a proper oiicer or phyfician for that purpose, _as Perhaps, the 'Parabolanus in the ancient znonasteries.
Jonathan Harle, 1729
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)
Parabolanus,parabōlā′nus,n.intheearly Eastern Church, a lay assistantto the clergyforwaitingonthesick.[Gr. parabolos, reckless.] Parabole,parab′ole,n.(rhet.) aparable, a comparisonorsimilitude. [Gr.; cf. Parable.] Paracelsian, parasel′sian  ...
Various
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See Pliny, HN 35.10.84–85; and Valerius Maximus 8.12.ext.3. 147. Isaiah 6.6. 148. Cf. Virgil, Aen. 12.396–397. 149. Cf. Codex Theodosianus 16.2.42; and Codex Justinianus 1.3.18, where parabolanus means “sick-nurse.” Petrarca is punning ...
Francesco Petrarca, 2009
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Gvilielmi Gesenii ... Thesavrvs Philologicvs Criticvs ...
7iucaßu).lta9ai , nnde parabolanus. Niph. pass. Hiph. no. 2 effusus est Jes. XXXII , i5 (de spiritn). Hithp. \) se nudavit Thren. IV, 21. — 2) effudit, diffudit se (de arbore patula) Pe. XXXVII, 35, cf. de h. 1. s. mîN p. 43i A. T : v * H" pi. n'i'iS f. Jes.
Wilhelm Gesenius, Emil Roediger, 1840
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A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
Drvtrging Parabola, a name given by Sir I aac Newton to five different lines of the third order, expressed by the equation yyzz ax3 + bx1 + cx + d. SiuaMrature sf ike Parabola. S;e the utricle Quadrature. PARABOLAN, parabolanus, in antiquity, ...
‎1764
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The Year's work in modern language studies
In 'Contributions by Byzantinologists to Romance etymology' (RLiR, xxvi) the Kahanes discuss carnival, macaroni, canon, Lazarus, parabolanus, labarum. They also challenge Livingston's etym. for travail (see YWML, xx, 41; xxi, 27; rev. by ...
Graham Orton
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Notes on the Parables of Our Lord
At the same time this notion of comparison is not necessarily included in ,the word, the whole family of cognate words, as wapdfiokog, rapafiéhws, parabolanus, being used in altogether a different sense, yet one growing out of the same root.
Richard Chenevix Trench, 1864
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Exposition of st. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, tr. by R. ...
That iitrudmz was the official name of the treasurer (joa), who distributed the contributions of others, is no less difficult to believe than that iXtm was he who had the oversight of the poor, (at a later period parabolanus.) 6 irooiSra/iinog h eirouop.
Friedrich August G. Tholuck, 1836
REFERENCE
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