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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: parliament - parodontal</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="parliament"> parliament, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a council or congress that is the highest lawmaking body in some countries. <DD> 2. a high court of justice in France before the French Revolution; parlement. <DD> 3. the lawmaking body of France, Switzerland, or Italy, or that of Scotland until 1707 or Ireland until 1800, and of certain other countries. <DD> 4. the highest lawmaking body of any political unit. Ex. The illusion has grown up that a "parliament of man" can be assembled under the UN roof (Wall Street Journal). <DD> 5. (Obsolete.) a formal conference or council for the discussion of some matter or matters of general importance. </DL> <A NAME="parliament"> Parliament, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the national lawmaking body of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It consists of the House of Lords and the House of Commons. Ex. Only then will Parliament be in a position to prescribe for these industries attainable targets (London Times). <DD> 2. the national lawmaking body of Canada, consisting of the Senate and the House of Commons. <DD> 3. the lawmaking body of a country or colony having the British system of government. Ex. In British Columbia we elected the only Indian legislator to sit in a provincial Parliament (Vancouver Native Voice). </DL> <A NAME="parliamentarian"> parliamentarian, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person skilled in parliamentary procedure or debate. <DD> 2. a member of a parliament. Ex. A lunch was given ... for a party of Cabinet Ministers and parliamentarians (Cape Times). </DL> <A NAME="parliamentarian"> Parliamentarian, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who supported Parliament against Charles I of England. </DL> <A NAME="parliamentarianism"> parliamentarianism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the parliamentary system of government. Ex. It is necessary to make a distinction between ... the constant weaknesses of French parliamentarianism and ... the causes of the present crisis (Manchester Guardian). </DL> <A NAME="parliamentarily"> parliamentarily, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a parliamentarymanner. </DL> <A NAME="parliamentarization"> parliamentarization, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the act of parliamentarizing. <DD> 2. the state of being parliamentarized. </DL> <A NAME="parliamentarize"> parliamentarize, transitive verb, -rized, -rizing.<DL COMPACT><DD> to make (a government) parliamentary; subject to the control of a parliament. </DL> <A NAME="parliamentary"> parliamentary, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. of a parliament. Ex. parliamentary authority. <DD> 2. done by a parliament. Ex. parliamentary statutes. <DD> 3. according to the rules and customs of a parliament or other lawmaking body. Ex. The United States Congress functions in accordance with the rules of parliamentary procedure. <DD> 4. having a parliament. Ex. a parliamentary form of government. </DL> <A NAME="parliamentarygovernment"> parliamentary government, =cabinet government.</DL> <A NAME="parliamentarylaw"> parliamentary law,<DL COMPACT><DD> a body of rules recognized for preserving order and regulating debate and procedure in legislative or deliberative bodies; rules of order. </DL> <A NAME="parliamenthill"> Parliament Hill,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the hill in Ottawa, capital of Canada, on which the buildings of the Canadian Parliament stand. <DD> 2. the Parliament of Canada. Ex. Old hands on Parliament Hill were shaken to hear the government criticized (Maclean's). </DL> <A NAME="parlor"> parlor, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a room for receiving or entertaining guests; sitting room; living room. Ex. In what was called the parlor ... there was a sofa, an uncomfortable couch, ... our showpiece, much admired (Arthur H. Tasker). <DD> 2. a decorated room or suite of rooms used as a shop or for various other commercial purposes. Ex. a funeral parlor, a beauty parlor. <DD> 3a. (British.) a room in an inn more private than the taproom. <DD> b. a separate and somewhat similar room in a hotel, club, or other public building. <DD>adj. 1. used in or suitable for a parlor. Ex. parlor furniture. <DD> 2. advocating views as if from the safe remoteness of the parlor rather than from a practical contact with the matters involved. Ex. a parlor radical. <DD> Also, (especially British,) parlour. </DL> <A NAME="parlorboarder"> parlor boarder,<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a pupil in a boarding school who lives with the principal's family and has privileges not granted to the ordinary pupils. </DL> <A NAME="parlorcar"> parlor car,<DL COMPACT><DD> a railroad passenger car for day travel, more luxurious than a coach and for which a higher fare is charged; Pullman car. </DL> <A NAME="parlorgame"> parlor game,<DL COMPACT><DD> a game played indoors, usually by a group of people in polite society. Quizzes and charades are parlor games. </DL> <A NAME="parlormaid"> parlormaid, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a maidservant who waits on table, answers the door, and performs other duties. </DL> <A NAME="parlormatch"> parlor match,<DL COMPACT><DD> a friction match containing little or no sulfur. </DL> <A NAME="parlororgan"> parlor organ, =harmonium.</DL> <A NAME="parlorpew"> parlor pew,<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a family pew in a church, furnished like a small parlor, sometimes occupied by the lord of the manor or squire with his household. </DL> <A NAME="parlour"> parlour, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially British.) parlor. </DL> <A NAME="parlous"> parlous, adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) <DD>adj. 1. full of peril; dangerous. Ex. the parlous state of the European coal industry (London Times). Thou art in a parlous state, shepherd (Shakespeare). (SYN) perilous. <DD> 2. very clever; shrewd. Ex. A parlous boy: go to, you are too shrewd (Shakespeare). <DD>adv. extremely; excessively. Ex. You look parlous handsome when you smile (George J. Whyte-Melville). adv. parlously. </DL> <A NAME="parma"> parma, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a medium or deep shade of violet. </DL> <A NAME="parmesan"> Parmesan, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun Also, Parmesan cheese. a hard, dry Italian cheese made from skim milk. Ex. To go with this, there is some of the finest Parmesan we have come across (New Yorker). <DD>adj. 1. of or belonging to the city, the province, or the former duchy of Parma in northern Italy. <DD> 2. prepared with Parmesan (cheese). Ex. veal Parmesan. </DL> <A NAME="parmigiana"> parmigiana, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> prepared with Parmesan cheese. Ex. veal parmigiana, eggplant parmigiana. </DL> <A NAME="parnassian"> Parnassian, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. of or having to do with Mount Parnassus, in southern Greece. <DD> 2. of or having to do with a school of French poetry of the latter half of the 1800's, that emphasized metrical form and repression of emotion. <DD>noun a French poet of the Parnassian school. </DL> <A NAME="parnassianism"> Parnassianism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the Parnassian style in French poetry. </DL> <A NAME="parnassius"> parnassius, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a white, tailless butterfly with thin wings and short antennae, found in high or mountainous regions from Europe across Asia and North America to New Mexico. </DL> <A NAME="parnassus"> Parnassus, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1a. the fabled mountain of poets, whose summit is their goal. <DD> b. any gathering place for poets. <DD> 2. a collection of poems, belles-lettres, or the like. expr. try (or strive) to climb Parnassus, to try to write poetry. Ex. There is Lowell, who's striving Parnassus to climb With a whole bale of isms tied together with rhyme (James Russell Lowell). </DL> <A NAME="parochiaid"> parochiaid, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) governmental aid to parochial schools. </DL> <A NAME="parochial"> parochial, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. of or in a parish. Ex. a parochial church, parochial calls, parochial relief of the poor. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) very limited; narrow. Ex. His viewpoint was too parochial. Some pride or ambition, big or small, imperial or parochial (Alexander Kinglake). adv. parochially. </DL> <A NAME="parochialism"> parochialism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> parochial character, spirit, or tendency; narrowness of interests or views. Ex. In a journal such as Science News, there is a pressure toward parochialism in the choice of authors which is hard to resist (Science News). </DL> <A NAME="parochialize"> parochialize, verb, -ized, -izing.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. to make parochial. <DD>v.i. to do parish work. </DL> <A NAME="parochialschool"> parochial school,<DL COMPACT><DD> a private school maintained by a religious group. Ex. Catholic parochial schools charge tuition. </DL> <A NAME="parodiable"> parodiable, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be parodied. Ex. Why is it that nobody has been able to write a successful parody of one who is presumably so supremely parodiable? (New York Times). </DL> <A NAME="parodic"> parodic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with or of the nature of a parody. Ex. I am reasonably certain that the author's intentions are not essentially parodic (Atlantic). </DL> <A NAME="parodical"> parodical, adjective. =parodic.</DL> <A NAME="parodist"> parodist, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a writer of parodies. Ex. ... Charlotte Rae, a parodist whose target is songbirds that even the Audubon Society wouldn't want to save (New Yorker). </DL> <A NAME="parodistic"> parodistic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of the nature of a parody; that parodies. Ex. "The Hollow Men" is in every way a better poem than "The Waste Land," though the parodistic style again enforces a poverty of statement and language (Saturday Review). </DL> <A NAME="parodontal"> parodontal, adjective. =periodontal.</DL> <A HREF="parodos.dic">NEXT</A>