Look up: parable

1. parable
   [n] - (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message
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2. Parable
   a short story told to illustrate a moral lesson or duty. Parables are often associated with the New Testament; however, many stories, including modern texts, may be classed as parables. see fable
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3. Parable
   Par'a·ble adjective [ Latin parabilis , from parare to provide.] Procurable. [ Obsolete] Sir T. Browne.
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4. Parable
   Par'a·ble noun [ French parabole , Latin parabola , from Greek ... a placing beside or together, a comparing, comparison, a parable, from ... to throw beside, compare; para` beside + ... to throw; confer Sanskrit gal to d...
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5. Parable
   Par'a·ble transitive verb To represent by parable. [ R.] « Which by the ancient sages was thus parabled.» Milton.
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6. Parable
   • (a.) Procurable. • (n.) 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. • (v. t.) To represent by parable.
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7. parable
   A simple story that centres around a general truth, an idea, a moral lesson. Characters within a parable are often allegorical figures.
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8. parable
   
   • a short moral story (often with animal characters)
   • (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message
   
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9. parable
   parable, the term translates the Hebrew word “mashal”—a term denoting a metaphor, or an enigmatic saying or an analogy. In the Greco-Roman rhetorical tradition, however, “parables” were illustrative narrative examples. Jewish teachers of the 1st cent. A.D. made use of c...
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10. parable
    Genre of allegorical narrative of real or fictitious events from which a moral is drawn
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11. Parable
    (1670) shows the Good Samaritan tending the injured man. A `parable` is a succinct story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive principles, or lessons, or (sometimes) a normative principle. It differs from a fable in that fables use animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forc...
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