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in fome preceding work, or treatife. In the canon of 
Scripture, there are two books of Paralipomena, called 
in the Englilh verfion Chronicles ; being a fupplement to 
the four books of Kings, the two firft of which are alfo 
called books of Samuel.—Quintus Calabar has a work, 
entitled the Paralipomena of Homer. Chambers. 
PARALIP'SIS, J'. [Greek.] A figure in rhetoric in 
which we affeCl to pafs over what neverthelefs we particu¬ 
larly mention. 
PARALLAC'TIC, or Parallactical, adj. [from 
parallax .] Relating to parallax. 
PAR'ALLAX,^.' [wapaAXa|t?, Gr.] An arc of the hea¬ 
vens intercepted between the true place of a ftar and 
its apparent place. The true place of a ftar is that point 
of the heavens in which it would befeen by an eye placed 
in the centre of the earth t the apparent place is that 
point of the heavens in which the ftar appears to an eye 
on the iurface of the earth. See the article Astronomy, 
vol. ii. p. 415, 16. —Light moves from the fun to us in 
about feven or eight minutes time, which diftance is 
about 70,000,000 Englifti miles, fuppofing the horizontal 
parallax of the fun to be about twelve feconds. Newton's 
Optics. 
By what ftrange parallax or optic fkill 
Of vilion multiply’d. Milton's P.R. 
Parallax, is alfo ufed to denote the change of place 
in any objeCt arifing from viewing it obliquely with 
refpeCt to another objefil. Thus the minute-hand of a 
watch is faid to have a parallax when it is viewed obliquely; 
and the difference between the inftants ftiown by it, when 
viewed direClly and obliquely, is the quantity of parallax 
in time. 
PAR'ALLEL, adj. [from the Gr. trapa, by the fide, 
and aXXoc, another.] Extended in the fame direction ; al¬ 
ways preferving the fame diftance.—Diftorting the order 
and theory of caufes perpendicular to their effeCls, he 
draws them afide unto things whereto they run parallel, 
and their proper motions would never meet together. 
B> •owns Vulg. Err. —Having the fame tendency.—When 
honour runs parallel with the laws of God and our coun¬ 
try, it cannot be too much cherifhed ; but, when the dic¬ 
tates of honour are contrary to thofe of religion and 
equity, they are the great depravations of human nature. 
Addifon. — Continuing the refemblance through many 
particulars ; equal; like.—The foundation-principle of 
peripateticifm is exactly parallel to an acknowledged no¬ 
thing. Glanville. — I fhall obferve fomething parallel to 
the wooing and wedding fuit in the behaviour of perfons 
of figure. Addifon. —In the parallel place before quoted. 
Lejlie. —Compare the words and phrafes in one place of 
an author, with the fame in other places of the fame 
author, which are generally called parallel places. Watts. 
PAR'ALLEL, f. Line continuing its courfe, and ftill 
remaining at the lame diftance from another line : 
Who made the fpider parallels defign, 
Sure as De Moivre, without rule or line ? Pope. 
Direction conformable to that of another line : 
Diffentions, like fmallftreams, are firft begun ; 
Scarce feen they rife, but gather as they run ; 
So lines, that from their parallel decline. 
More they proceed, the more they ftill disjoin. Garth. 
Refemblance ; conformity continued through many par¬ 
ticulars ; likenefs: 
’Twixt earthly females and the moon 
All parallels exactly run. Swift's Mifcell. 
Comparifon made.—A reader cannot be more rationally 
entertained, than by comparing and drawing a parallel 
between his own private character and that of other per¬ 
fons. Addifon. —Any thing refembling another.—Thou 
ungrateful brute, if thou wouldft find thy parallel, go to 
hell, which is both the region and the emblem of ingra¬ 
titude. South's Sermons. 
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For works like thefe, let deathlefs journals tell. 
None but thyfelf can be thy parallel. Pope. 
Parallels, or Parallel Circles, in geography, called 
alfo Parallels of Latitude, are fmaller circles ofthefphere, 
conceived to be drawn from weft to eaft through all the 
points of the meridian; commencing from the equator, 
to which they are parallel, and terminating with the 
poles. They are called parallels of latitude, becaufe all 
places lying under the fame parallel have the fame lati¬ 
tude. 
Parallels of Declination, in aftronomy, are the fame 
with parallels of latitude in geography. 
Parallel Sailing. See the article Navigation, vol. 
xvi. p. 624.. 
Parallel Sphere, that fituation of the fphere in 
which the equator coincides with the horizon, and the 
poles with the zenith and nadir. In this fphere, all the 
parallels of the equator become parallels of the horizon ; 
confequently no liars ever rife or fet, but all turn round 
in circles parallel to the horizon ; and the fun, when in 
the equinoctial, wheels round the horizon the whole day. 
After his riling to the elevated pole, he never fets for 
fix months ; and, after his entering again on the other 
fide of the line, he never rifes for fix months longer. This 
pofition of the fphere is their’s who live under the poles, 
if any fuch there be ; their fun being never above 2-5° 20' 
high. 
To PAR'ALLEL, v. a. To place, fo as always to keep 
the fame direction with another line.—The Azores hav¬ 
ing a middle fituation between thefe continents and that 
vail traCl of America, the needle feemeth equally dif- 
traCted by both, and, diverting unto neither, doth parallel 
and placeitfelf upon the true meridian. Brown. —To keep 
in the fame direction; to level.—The loyal fufferers 
abroad became fubjeCted to the word effeCt of banifhment, 
and even there expelled and driven from their flights ; fo 
paralleling in their exigencies the mod immediate objeCts 
of that monfter’s fury. Fell. 
His life is parallel'd 
Ev’n with the ftroke and line of his great juftice. ShaheJ'. 
To correfpond to.—That he ftretched out the north over 
the empty places, feems to parallel the expreftion of Da¬ 
vid, he ftretched out the earth upon the waters. Burnet. —- 
To be equal to; to refemble through many particulars. 
—In the fire, the deftruClion was fo fwift, fudden, vaft, 
and miferable, as nothing can parallel in dory. Dnjden. 
To compare.—I paralleled, more than once, our idea of 
fubftance, with the Indian philofopher’s he-knew-not- 
what, which fupported the tortoife. Locke. 
PARALLEL'ABLE, adj. That may be equalled. — 
Our duty is feconded with fuch an advantage, as is not 
parallelable in all the world befide. Bp. Hall's Remains. 
PAR'ALLELESS, adj. Not to be paralleled ; match- 
lefs : 
Is (lie not parallelefs ? is not her breath 
Sweet as Arabian winds when fruits are ripe ? 
Beaumont and Fletcher. 
PAR'ALLELISM, f. The quality of a parallel, or that 
which denominates it fuch : or it is that whereby two 
things (e.g. lines, rays, or the like,) become equidiftant 
from one another. Stateof being parallel.—Refemblance; 
comparifon.—From a clofe parallelifm of thought and in¬ 
cident, it is clear that either Browne’s paftoral imitates 
Fletcher’s play, or the play the paftoral. Warton's Notes 
on Milton. 
Parallelism of the Earth’s Axis, in aftronomy, 
is that invariable fituation of the earth’s axis, in its pro- 
grefs through its orbit, whereby it ftill looks nearly to 
the fame point of the heavens, viz. towards the pole-ftar; 
fo that, if a line be drawn parallel to its axis while in 
any one pofition, the axis, in all other pofitions or parts 
of the orbit, will always be nearly parallel to the fame 
line. This parallelifm Is the neceffary refult of the earth’s 
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