3. According to the rules and usages of Parliament or of deliberative
bodies; as, a parliamentary motion.
Parliamentary agent, a person, usually a solicitor, professionally
employed by private parties to explain and recommend claims, bills,
etc., under consideration of Parliament. [Eng.] -- Parliamentary train,
one of the trains which, by act of Parliament, railway companies are
required to run for the conveyance of third-class passengers at a
reduced rate. [Eng.]
Par"lor (?), n. [OE. parlour, parlur, F. parloir, LL. parlatorium. See
Parley.] [Written also parlour.] A room for business or social
conversation, for the reception of guests, etc. Specifically: (a) The
apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to
meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from
without. Piers Plowman. (b) In large private houses, a sitting room for
the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than
the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house
having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is
usually on the ground floor. (c) Commonly, in the United States, a
drawing- room, or the room where visitors are received and entertained.
"In England people who have a drawing-room no longer call it a parlor,
as they called it of old and till recently." Fitzed. Hall.
Parlor car. See Palace car, under Car.
Par"lous (?), a. [For perlous, a contr. fr. perilous.] 1. Attended with
peril; dangerous; as, a parlous cough. [Archaic] "A parlous snuffing."
Beau. & Fl.
2. Venturesome; bold; mischievous; keen. [Obs.] "A parlous boy." Shak.
"A parlous wit." Dryden. -- Par"lous*ly, adv. [Obs.] -- Par"lous*ness,
n. [Obs.]
Par`me*san" (?), a. [F. parmesan, It. parmigiano.] Of or pertaining to
Parma in Italy.
Parmesan cheese, a kind of cheese of a rich flavor, though from skimmed
milk, made in Parma, Italy.
||Par*nas"si*a (?), n. [NL.] (Bot.) A genus of herbs growing in wet
||places, and having white flowers; grass of Parnassus.
Par*nas"sian (?), a. [L. Parnassius.] Of or pertaining to Parnassus.
Par*nas"sian, n. [See Parnassus.] (Zoˆl.) Any one of numerous species
of butterflies belonging to the genus Parnassius. They inhabit the
mountains, both in the Old World and in America.
Par*nas"sus (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;.] (Anc. Geog. & Gr. Myth.) A
mountain in Greece, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, and famous for a
temple of Apollo and for the Castalian spring.
Grass of Parnassus. (Bot.) See under Grass, and Parnassia. -- To climb
Parnassus, to write poetry. [Colloq.]
Par`oc*cip"i*tal (?), a. [Pref. para- + occipital.] (Anat.) Situated
near or beside the occipital condyle or the occipital bone;
paramastoid; -- applied especially to a process of the skull in some
animals.
Pa*ro"chi*al (?), a. [LL. parochialis, from L. parochia. See Parish.]
Of or pertaining to a parish; restricted to a parish; as, parochial
duties. "Parochial pastors." Bp. Atterbury. Hence, limited; narrow.
"The parochial mind." W. Black.
Pa*ro"chi*al*ism (?), n. The quality or state of being parochial in
form or nature; a system of management peculiar to parishes.
Pa*ro`chi*al"i*ty (?), n. The state of being parochial. [R.] Sir J.
Marriot.
Pa*ro"chi*al*ize (?), v. t. To render parochial; to form into parishes.
Pa*ro"chi*al*ly, adv. In a parochial manner; by the parish, or by
parishes. Bp. Stillingfleet.
Pa*ro"chi*an (?), a. [See Parochial, Parishioner.] Parochial. [Obs.]
"Parochian churches." Bacon.
Pa*ro"chi*an, n. [LL. parochianus.] A parishioner. [Obs.] Ld. Burleigh.
{ Pa*rod"ic (?), Pa*rod"ic*al (?), } a. [Gr. &?;: cf. F. parodique.]
Having the character of parody.
Very paraphrastic, and sometimes parodical.
T. Warton.
Par"o*dist (?), n. [Cf. F. parodiste.] One who writes a parody; one who
parodies. Coleridge.
Par"o*dy (?), n.; pl. Parodies (#). [L. parodia, Gr. &?;; para` beside
+ &?; a song: cf. F. parodie. See Para-, and Ode.]
1. A writing in which the language or sentiment of an author is
mimicked; especially, a kind of literary pleasantry, in which what is
written on one subject is altered, and applied to another by way of
burlesque; travesty.
The lively parody which he wrote . . . on Dryden's "Hind and
Panther" was received with great applause.
Macaulay.