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In a parental manner.

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

Kinship; parentage. [Obs.] Chaucer.

thin 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.

Running through the entire length.

ing or continuing through the year; as, perennial fountains.

In a perennial manner.

Those Batrachia which retain their gills through life, as the menobranchus.

Belonging to the Perennibranchiata.

The quality of being perennial. [R.] Derham.

The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period.

A complex hydrocarbon, C14H10, found in coal tar, and obtained as a white crystalline substance with a bluish fluorescence.

One who is phrenetic. Harvey.

Relating to phrenitis; suffering from frenzy; delirious; mad; frantic; frenetic. -- Phre*net"ic*al*ly, adv.