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quipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled.

An example; a model; a pattern. [R.] "The paradigms and patterns of all things." Cudworth.

A writer of memoirs of religious persona, as examples of Christian excellence.

Exemplary. -- Par`a*dig*mat"ic*al*ly, adv. [Obs.]

To set forth as a model or example. [Obs.] Hammond.

Of or pertaining to, or resembling, paradise; paradisiacal. "Paradisaical pleasures." Gray.

Paradisiacal.

The abode of sanctified souls after death. To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise. Luke xxiii. 43. It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise. Longfellow.

Paradisiacal.

Placed in paradise; enjoying delights as of paradise.

Of or pertaining to paradise; suitable to, or like, paradise. C. Kingsley. T. Burnet. "A paradisiacal scene." Pope. The valley . . . is of quite paradisiac beauty. G. Eliot.

Paradisiacal. [R.]

Paradisiacal. [R.] Broome.

Paradisiacal. [R.]

An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse. Farrow.

ppearance or terms is absurd, but yet may be true in fact. A gloss there is to color that paradox, and make it appear in show not to be altogether unreasonable. Hooker. This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. Shak. Hydrostatic paradox. See under Hydrostatic.

Paradoxical. [Obs.]

One who proposes a paradox.

Of the nature of a paradox.

A genus of large trilobites characteristic of the primordial formations.