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tions happily executed. Another volume of pofthumous 
pieces was printed at Dublin in 1758, and its contents 
have fince been added to the former in the collections of 
Englifh poets. In bulk they much exceed the firft pub¬ 
lication ; but in merit they are fo much inferior, that 
they are rather a drawback from Parnell’s reputation than 
an acceflion to it. Dr. Johnfon has thought it fuperfluous 
to enquire into their authenticity, or canvafs their me¬ 
rits; and he exprefsly limits his commendations, which 
are by no means fcanty, to the pieces publilhed by Pope. 
Of thefe, the moll admired is The Hermit; as to the ori¬ 
gin of which ftory, fee the Monthly Magazine for April 
1813. See alfo Goldfmith’s Life of Parnell, and Johnfon’s 
Lives of the Poets. 
PAR'NES, in ancientgeography, a mountain of Greece, 
in Attica, on which were a ftatue of Jupiter Parnetianus 
in bronze; another of Jupiter and Semele; and another 
altar on which the adjacent inhabitants facrificed to 
Jupiter, under the appellations of the Beneficent and 
Rainy, or Pluvius. This mountain abounded with bears 
and wild boars. 
PAR'NIPA, a river of Bralil, which runs into the At¬ 
lantic in lat. 18. 10. S. 
PAR'NON, in ancient geography, a lofty mountain of 
the Argolide, on which were placed the Hermaean ftatues 
of Mercury, which, in the time of Paufanias, indicated 
the limits of Laconia, and of the territory of the Tagetes, 
a people of Arcadia. 
PAR'NOT, a town of France, in the department of 
the Upper Marne : five miles north-weft of Bourbonne. 
PA'RO, a fmall ifland near the coaft of Nicaragua, in 
Salinas Bay. Lat. 10. 3. N. Ion. 85. 36. W. 
PA'RO, or Parogong', a town of Bootan, (Thibet,) 
and capital of a diftriif, with a caftle fituated at the bafe 
of a lofty mountain, in which the governor refides ; cele¬ 
brated for its manufacture of idols, and arms; particularly 
fwords, daggers, and the barbs of arrows: twelve miles 
fouth-weft of Taflafudon. Lat. 27. 43. N. Ion. 89. 32. E. 
PA'RO HO'TUN, a town of Chinefe Tartary : 288 
miles north-north-eaft of Pekin. Lat. 44. 2. N. Ion. 118. 
4.7. E. 
PARO'CHE, [ parochia , barb. Lat.] A parifh.—Saint 
Peter is patron of the paroche and dedication of Weft- 
mi nfter. Spelman. 
PARO'CHIAL, adj. [ parochialis , from parochia, low 
Lat.] Belonging to a parifh.—Every church is either ca¬ 
thedral, conventual, or parochial. Cathedral is that, 
where there is a bifhop feated, fo called a cathedra ; con¬ 
ventual confifts of regular clerks, profefiing fonae order 
of religion, or of a dean and chapter, or other college of 
fpiritual men; parocldal is that which is inftituted for 
faying divine fervice, and adminiftering the holy facra- 
ments to the people, dwelling within a certain compafs 
of ground near unto it. Cowel. —The married ftateofpa- 
rochial paftors hath given them the opportunity of fetting 
a more exaCl and univerfal pattern of holy living to the 
people committed to their charge. Alterbury. 
PAROCHI AL'ITY, f. State of being parochial.—For 
this efpecial reafon the fecond rate fhould be quafhed, 
becaufe in confirming the fecond rate it would be .for the 
juftices to take upon themfelves in efteCl to determine 
the parochiality of colleges. Dr. Marriott on the Rights of 
both the Univ. 1769. 
PARO'CHIALLY, adv. In a parifh ; by parifhes.— 
The bifhop was to vifit his whole diocek, parochially, every 
year. Bp. Stillingfleet. 1690. 
PARO'CHIAN, adj. Belonging to a parifh.—A com¬ 
putation is taken of all the parochian churches. Bacon's 
Confid. on the Ch. of England. 
PARO'CHIAN, f. A parifliioner.—[They] have in- 
ticed their parochians and their auditories to conceive 
erroneous opinions. Strype's Life of Abp. Parker. 
PARO'CHUS, f. Among the Romans, one who pro¬ 
vided mules, tents, and carriages, with all other necefia- 
ries, for the provincial magiftrates in their journeys, as 
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alfo for ambafTadors; for, in the early times of the re¬ 
public, they had their charges borne by the public, that 
the allies or provincials might not be burdened. 
PAROD'IC, orPARODiCAL, adj. [from the Gr. 
through, and o 5 o;, a way.] In algebra, regularly amend¬ 
ing or defending ; as the indices of the unknown quan¬ 
tity in adfefted equations. 
PAROD'ICAL, adj. [from parody."] Copying after the 
manner of parody.—This verfion is very paraphraftic, 
and fometimes parodical. Warton's Hi ft. E. P. 
PAR'ODY,/. [ parudic , Fr. vragwha, Gr.] A kind of 
writing, in which the words of an author or his thoughts 
are taken, and by a flight change adapted to fome new 
purpofe.—They were fatirick poems, full of parodies; 
that is, of verfes patched up from great poets, and turned 
into another fenfe than their author intended them. Dry- 
den's Orig. and Progr. of Satire. —The imitations of the 
ancients are added, together with fome of the parodies 
and allufions to the moft excellent of the moderns. 
Pope's Dunciad. 
The parody was firft fet on foot by the Greeks ; from 
whom we borrow the name. It comes near to what fome 
of our late writers call travejly. Others have more accu¬ 
rately diftinguifhed between a parody and burlefque : and 
they obferve, that the change of a Angle word may pa¬ 
rody a verfe, or of a Angle letter a word. Thus, in the 
laft cafe, Cato expofed the inconftant difpofitionof Mar¬ 
cus Fulvius Nobilior, by calling him Mobilior. 
Another kind of parody confifts in the mere application 
of fome known verfe, or part of a verfe, of a writer, 
without making any change in it, with a view to a differ¬ 
ent underftanding of it. A fourth inftance is that of 
writing verfes in the tafte and ftyle of authors little ap¬ 
proved. 
The rules of parody regard the choice of a fubjeft, 
and the manner of treating it. The fubjeft fhould be a 
known and celebrated work : as to the manner, it fhould 
be by an exaft imitation, and an intermixture of good- 
natured pleafantry. Mem. cle I'Acad. des Belles Lettres, 
tom. viii. 
The French term it parodying an inflrumental air when 
it is made vocal, by writing or adjufting words to it. In 
good compofitions, the melody is made for the words; 
but, in parodying an air, the words are fet to the melody. 
In ballads, and fongs of many ftanzas to the fame air, 
Rouffeau obferves, that all but the firft are parodies, 
which is eafily difcovered by the liberties taken with the 
rhythm by the fingers, and the want of mufical knowledge 
in the poet. 
To PAR'ODY, v. a. To copy by way of parody.—I 
have tranflated, or rather parodied, a poem of Horace, in 
which I introduce you advifing me. Pope. 
PARO'L, adj. [from parole, Fr.] By word of mouth. 
•—Proofs (to which in common fpeech the name of evi¬ 
dence is ufually confined) are either written or parol, 
that is, by word of mouth. Blachjlone. —He is tenant by 
cuftom to the planets, of whom he holds the twelve houfes 
by leafe parol. Overbury's Char ail. 
Parol Conveyances, fuch as were formerly, in many 
inftances, made by parol, or word of mouth only, without 
writing; but, this occafioninga variety of frauds, the flat. 
29 Car. II. c. 3. ena&s, that no leafe, eftate, or intereft 
in lands, tenements, or hereditaments, made by livery of 
feifin, or by parol only, (except leafes not exceeding three 
years from the making, and whereon the referved rent 
is at leaft two thirds of the real value,) fliall be looked 
upon as of greater force than a leafe or eftate at will: 
nor fliall any aflignment, grant, or furrender, of any in- 
tereft in any freehold'hereditaments, be valid ; unlefs in 
both cafes the fame be put in writing, and figned by 
the party granting, or his agent lawfully authorifed, 
in writing. 
PARO'LE, f. [French, contrafted from parabola, Lat. 
Gr. whence the Span, palabra, and the Ital. 
parola ; and from the verb parabolare, firft the old Fr. pa- 
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