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PARACU'SIS, / [from the Greek.] Depraved hear¬ 
ing. The term is not applied to limple deafnefs, that is, 
to a mere diminution or abolition of the fenfe of hearing; 
but to thofe varieties of imperfect hearing, in which all 
founds are heard incorrectly; as forinitance, with hiding, 
ringing, orother noifes; and to over-acute as well as Obtufe 
powers of hearing. See Cullen’s Nofol. Meth. Gen. 97. 
PARADAN'GA, a town of Bengal : twenty-five miles 
eaft-north-eaft of Rungpour. 
PARA'DE, f. [Fr. from partita, paratura, low Lat. 
ornaments. Our word w\as probably not admitted into 
ufe before the middle of the feventeenth century. Milton’s 
is the earlieft of Dr. Johnfon’s examples. Bifitop Taylor 
writes it pararla. “ Nor may this be called an hiltrionike 
parada, or ftagely vifard.” Artif. Handfomenefs, 1656. 
Todd.] Show; oftentation.—He is not led forth as to a 
review, but as to a battle; nor adorned for parade , but 
execution. Granville. 
Be rich ; but of your wealth make no parade , 
At leaft before your mafter’s debts are paid. Swift. 
Procefiion 5 alfembly of pomp : 
The rites perform’d, the parfon paid, 
In Rate return’d the grand parade. Swift. 
Military order: 
The cherubim Rood arm’d 
To their night-watches in warlike parade. Milton. 
Place where troops draw up to do duty and mount guard. 
—The place of trumpets and kettle-drums, of horfe and 
foot guards, the parade. Warburton's Letters to Hurd .— 
Guard ; pofture of defence.—Accuftom him to make 
judgment of men by their infide, which often fiiows itfelf 
in little things, when they are not in parade, and upon 
their guard. Locke on Education. —A public walk.—The 
parade originally coniifted of a fquare court before cathe¬ 
drals, furrounded with piazzas or porticoes for perfons to 
walk under, being fupported with pillars. It is now ufed, 
in a military fenfe, to fignify any place where troops 
aflemble, and may be diftinguifhed in the following 
manner: 
General Parade, the place where foldiers belonging to 
different corps are drawn up, according to feniority, to 
mount guard, or to be exercifed, &c. 
Regimental Parade, the place where any particular 
regiment or corps is formed in line, &c. 
Private Parade, any fpot feleCIed (in general by each 
captain of a troop or company) for the infpeftion of his 
men, previous to their being marched off to the regimental 
parade. This parade is likewife called company or troop 
parade. When troops are encamped, the general and 
regimental parades are ufually in front of the line of 
tents ; each regiment having its quarter-guard oppolite, 
and the fpace between being fufficient to allow of the free 
exercife of the battalion. The companies have their 
private parades in the feveral ffreets of the camp. James's 
Mil. Died. 
Parade-Officer, an officer who attends to the mi¬ 
nutiae of regimental duty, but who is not remarkable for 
military fcience. James's Mil. Diet. 
PARA'DE, f. [French.] In fencing, is the aftion of 
parrying or turning off any pufli or ftroke, This is merely 
a French word.—There are as many kinds of parades 
as of flrokes and attacks ; as the parade inward, outward, 
above, below, feigned, See. Chambers. 
To PARA'DE, v. n. To go about in military procefiion : 
I hate that drum’s difeordant found, 
Parading round and round and round. Scott of Arnwell. 
To aflemble together for the purpofe of being infpefted 
or exercifed. 
To PARA'DE, v. a. To exhibit in a fhowy or often- 
tatious manner. 
PARA'DE (La), a town of France, in the department 
of the Lot and Garonne; fix miles eaft of Tonneins, 
PARA'DE de BOU'RO, a town of Portugal, in the 
province of Entre Duero e Minho: (ixteen miles north- 
north-eaft of Braga. 
PARADEL'LA, a town of Portugal, in the province 
of Beira: twelve miles fouth-eaft of Lamego. 
PARA'DES, a town of Spain, in the province of Seville : 
five miles fouth of Carmona. 
PARADI'ES, a town of Pruflia, in the province of 
Oberland : two miles fouth-weff of Mohrungen. 
PARADIG'M, f. [from the Gr. wap*, by the fide of 
and S'eixvvy.i, to fiiow.] An illuftration by an example. 
A model.—The archetypal paradigm, the idea of ideas, 
or form of forms. More's Song of the Soul .—Your Greek 
too, I dare fay, keeps pace with your Latin ; and you have 
all your paradigms ad unguem. Chc/ierfield. 
PAR ADIGMA'TICAL, adj. Exemplary .—Thofe vir- 
tuesthat put away quite and extinguish the firft motions, 
are paradigmalical; that is, virtues that make us anfwer to 
the paradigm or idea of virtues exaftly, viz. the intelledl 
of God, More's Song of the Soul. 
To PAR ADIG'M ATIZE, v. a. To fet forth as a model 
or example.—There is no one queltion concerning any 
line in thofe books fo paradigmatized by you, or in any 
piece of divinity wherein I underftand aught, but you or 
any man ihall for the leaft alking have the full fenfe of 
your fervant, H. Hammond. Hammond to Cheynel. 
PAR'ADIN (William), an induftrious French author, 
who flourifiied in the 16th century, but of whofe perfonal 
hiftory little more is known than that he was living about 
the year 1581. His moft important w r orks were, 1. The 
Chronicle of Savoy. 2. Arifteas’s Hiftory of the Septu- 
agint. 3. Hiftory of his own Time. 4. Memoirs of the 
City of Lyons. 
PAR'ADIS, a village of Swifferland, on the left bank 
of the Rhine : two miles eaft of Scaffhaufen. 
PAR'ADISE, f. [9ra^a.^£Kr©-, Gr. a garden.] The 
blifsful regions in which the firft pair was placed.— 
Paradife is in Hebrew D 1 ” 13 , pardes, from “TfllO, to 
divide, to fet apart; fo that the real meaning of the word 
is a “ fequeftered retired place,” which fenfe agrees ex- 
aftly with the purpofe for which the parties was created. 
Gleanings in Etymology , now preparing for the prefs. 
Longer in that paradife to dwell 
The law I gave to Nature him forbids. Milton. 
As to the terrefrial paradife, there have been many 
enquiries about its lituation. Some, as Hardouin, See. 
will have it in Judea, in the place where now is the lake 
Genefareth ; others, as Le Clerc, See. in Syria, towards 
the fprings of the Orontes, and Chryforrhoe: but in 
neither of thofe places do we difeover any track of the 
rivers with which the paradife in Mofes’s defeription was 
watered. Calmet, and fome other ingenious critics, have 
placed the terreftrial paradife in Armenia, near Mount 
Ararat, where Noah’s ark was left; and imagine they 
there difeover the fources of the four rivers which watered 
the garden of Eden, viz. Euphrates; Hiddekel, now the 
Tigris; Gihon, now Araxes; and Pifon, now Phazzo. 
But fir J. Chardin affures us, in his Travels, that the 
Phazzo fprings out of the mountains of Caucafus, north¬ 
ward of the kingdom of Imereti, and far enough from 
Mount Ararat: befides, that in Armenia we have no 
figns of the countries of Havila and Ethiopia, which thole 
rivers wafited after their departure from Eden. 
There are various other opinions, as to this point: 
Poftellus will have paradife placed under the North Pole i 
grounding his notion upon an ancient tradition of the 
Egyptians and Babylonians, that the ecliptic or fun’s way 
was at firft at right angles to the equator; and fo paffed 
dire&ly over the North Pole. Others are againft limiting, 
it to any one place, and contend, that it included the 
whole face of the earth, which was then, as it were, one 
continued feene of pleafures, till altered upon Adam’s 
tranfgreflion. However, both thefe opinions are equally 
incompatible with the account in the book of Genefis. 
Othersj 
