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

ege walls constitute a permanent standing committee, called the Parietal Committee. B. H. Hall (1856).

Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial. [R.] Bp. Hall.

A body of seats on the floor of a music hall or theater nearest the orchestra; but commonly applied to the whole lower floor of a theater, from the orchestra to the dress circle; the pit.

A chimney-piece. Halliwell.

Servile imitation or repetition. [R.] Coleridge. "The supine parrotry." Fitzed. Hall.

; way of access or transit. Hence, a common avenue to various apartments in a building; a hall; a corridor. And with his pointed dart Explores the nearest passage to his heart. Dryden. The Persian army had advanced into the . . . passages of Cilicia. South.

A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.

One who loves his country, and zealously supports its authority and interests. Bp. Hall. Such tears as patriots shaed for dying laws. Pope.

The act of patrocinating or patronizing. [Obs.] "Patrocinations of treason." Bp. Hall.

A stilt. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To furnish with a pavement; to pave. [Obs.] "How richly pavemented!" Bp. Hall.

onging to a mountainous region. "Her peakish spring." Drayton. "His peakish dialect." Bp. Hall.

To pour out. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Exclusive possession or right. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A basket; a hammer; a pannier. [Obs.] Halliwell.

One who receives a pension; a pensioner. E. Hall.

ing place or seat. As chauntecleer among his wives all Sat on his perche, that was in his hall. Chaucer. Not making his high place the lawless perch Of winged ambitions. Tennyson.

ance. Here is not a mere involution only, but a spiritual permeation and inexistence. Bp. Hall.

To pay wholly, or fully. [Obs.] E. Hall.