Procurable. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
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. Declare unto us the parable of the tares. Matt. xiii. 36.
To represent by parable. [R.] Which by the ancient sages was thus parabled. Milton.
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