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One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother. Children, obey your parents in the Lord. Eph. vi. 1.

Descent from parents or ancestors; parents or ancestors considered with respect to their rank or character; extraction; birth; as, a man of noble parentage. "Wilt thou deny thy parentage" Shak. Though men esteem thee low of parentage. Milton.

Of or pertaining to a parent or to parents; as, parental authority; parental obligations.

In a parental manner.

Something done or said in honor of the dead; obsequies. [Obs.] Abp. Potter.

Kinship; parentage. [Obs.] Chaucer.

within curved lines (see def. 2 below), or dashes. "Seldom mentioned without a derogatory parenthesis." Sir T. Browne. Don't suffer every occasional thought to carry you away into a long parenthesis. Watts.

To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks. Lowell.

Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark. A parenthetical observation of Moses himself. Hales.

In a parenthetical manner; by way of parenthesis; by parentheses.

The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.

The act of one who kills one's own parent. [R.]

Deprived of parents.

he epididymis in man and some other animals, and supposed to be a remnant of the anterior part of the Wolffian body.

One who, or that which, pares; an instrument for paring.

See Parergy.

Something unimportant, incidental, or superfluous. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Incomplete paralysis, affecting motion but not sensation.

A parethmoid bone.

Of or pertaining to paresis; affected with paresis.