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A plant common in Europe (Paris quadrifolia); herb Paris; truelove. It has been used as a narcotic.

Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial; as, a parish church; parish records; a parish priest; maintained by the parish; as, parish poor. Dryden. Parish clerk. (a) The clerk or recording officer of a parish. (b) A layman who leads in the responses and otherwise assists in the service of the Church of England. -- Paris…

A parishioner. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

One who belongs to, or is connected with, a parish.

A native or inhabitant of Paris, the capital of France.

A female native or resident of Paris.

The use of equivocal or ambiguous words. [R.]

Having the same number of syllables in all its inflections.

gs of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative. Their horses clothed with rich caparison. Drylen.

es; relative estimate. As sharp legal practitioners, no class of human beings can bear comparison with them. Macaulay. The miracles of our Lord and those of the Old Testament afford many interesting points of comparison. Trench.

Reproduction by spontaneous fission.

Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; as, an imparisyllabic noun, one which has not the same number of syllables in all the cases; as, lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis.

Mutual comparison of corresponding parts.

A parish lying without the walls of, or in a remote part of, a town. Graunt.

To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price. Nine thousand parishes, abating the odd hundreds. Fuller.

Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.

nce; as, to acquaint a friend with the particulars of an act. Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love. Shak. I must acquaint you that I have received New dated letters from Northumberland. Shak.

eficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. Advabtageous comparison with any other country. Prescott. You see . . . of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goes. Chesterfield.

s of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke.