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-- Forgiveness, Pardon. Forgiveness is Anglo-Saxon, and pardon Norman French, both implying a giving back. The word pardon, being early used in our Bible, has, in religious matters, the same sense as forgiveness; but in the language of common life there is a difference between them, such as we often find between corres…

Admitting of pardon; not requiring the excution of penalty; venial; excusable; -- applied to the offense or to the offender; as, a pardonable fault, or culprit.

The quality or state of being pardonable; as, the pardonableness of sin. Bp. Hall.

In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably. Dryden.

One who pardons. Shak.

Relating to pardon; having or exercising the right to pardon; willing to pardon; merciful; as, the pardoning power; a pardoning God.

To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof.

Mitigating; assuaging or soothing pain; as, paregoric elixir.

The addition of a syllable or particle to the end of a pronoun, verb, or adverb.

Of or relating to parelectronomy; as, the parelectronomic part of a muscle.

A condition of the muscles induced by exposure to severe cold, in which the electrical action of the muscle is reversed.

A kind of lichen (Lecanora parella) once used in dyeing and in the preparation of litmus.

A kind of parenthesis.

See Parament. [Obs.]

Same as Parembole.

The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.

Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, parenchyma.

Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the parenchyma of a tissue or an organ; as, parenchymatous degeneration.

Exhortation. [R.]

Hortatory; encouraging; persuasive. [R.] F. Potter.