Crossword clues for parable
parable
- Story with a moral
- Story with a lesson
- Moral tale
- Teaching story
- Sunday school story
- Allegorical tale
- Morality tale
- Moralistic story
- Bible story
- Story from the pulpit
- Simple story lesson
- Religious story
- Illustration by Jesus
- Good Samaritan story, say
- Biblical tale
- Biblical story
- "The Good Samaritan," e.g
- Story of Jesus
- Teaching device
- It delivers a message
- Passage with a moral
- "The Prodigal Son," for one
- A short moral story (often with animal characters)
- (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message
- Allegory
- Tale with a moral
- Allegorical story
- Short allegorical tale
- New Testament allegory
- Story could be cut shorter?
- Sailor in discussion failing to finish moral story
- Page for farming story
- Drop Arab leader's story
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Parable \Par"a*ble\, v. t. To represent by parable. [R.]
Which by the ancient sages was thus parabled.
--Milton.
Parable \Par"a*ble\, a. [L. parabilis, fr. parare to provide.]
Procurable. [Obs.]
--Sir T. Browne.
Parable \Par"a*ble\, n. [F. parabole, L. parabola, fr. Gr. ? a
placing beside or together, a comparing, comparison, a
parable, fr. ? to throw beside, compare; para` beside + ? to
throw; cf. Skr. gal to drop. Cf. Emblem, Gland,
Palaver, Parabola, Parley, Parabole, Symbol.]
A comparison; a similitude; specifically, a short fictitious
narrative of something which might really occur in life or
nature, by means of which a moral is drawn; as, the parables
of Christ.
--Chaucer.
Declare unto us the parable of the tares.
--Matt. xiii.
36.
Syn: See Allegory, and Note under Apologue.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., parabol, modern form from early 14c., "saying or story in which something is expressed in terms of something else," from Old French parable "parable, parabolic style in writing" (13c.), from Latin parabola "comparison," from Greek parabole "a comparison, parable," literally "a throwing beside," hence "a juxtaposition," from para- "alongside" (see para- (1)) + bole "a throwing, casting, beam, ray," related to ballein "to throw" (see ballistics).\n
\nReplaced Old English bispell. In Vulgar Latin, parabola took on the meaning "word," hence Italian parlare, French parler "to speak" (see parley (n.)).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy vb. (context transitive English) To represent by parable. Etymology 2
(context obsolete English) That can easily be prepared or procured; obtainable.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters. A parable is a type of analogy.
Some scholars of the canonical gospels and the New Testament apply the term "parable" only to the parables of Jesus, though that is not a common restriction of the term. Parables such as " The Prodigal Son" are central to Jesus' teaching method in the canonical narratives and the apocrypha.
Parable is a 1964 American short Christian film written and directed by Rolf Forsberg, made for the Lutheran Council and became popular when first screened at the 1964 New York World's Fair in 1964, and again in 1965 at the Protestant Pavilion. The film depicts Christ as a clown and the world as a circus and is considered both a revolutionary Christian film and one which proved to be influential.
In 2012, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Usage examples of "parable".
What follows, then, is a cheerful parable of your being and your becoming, an apologue of that Emptiness which forever issues forth, unfolding and enfolding, evolving and involving, creating worlds and dissolving them, with each and every breath you take.
King of the Sun and the Moon and the Rising Tide, et cetera, thanks for marrying me at last after sleeping with me for a thousand and one nights and begetting three children on me and listening while I amused you with proverbs and parables, chronicles and pleasantries, quips and jests and admonitory instances, stories and anecdotes, dialogues and histories and elegies and satires and Allah alone knows what else!
It is by a pure effect of fancy and doctrinal bias that the parable has been perverted into a description of the Last Judgment.
Beneath that as an evocation of existential loneliness, a Christian fable, a parable of the artist.
In his shorter tales an affinity may be felt with the parables of Hasidism, that pietist movement within Judaism which emphasized, over against the law of orthodoxy, mystic joy and divine immanence.
He complains about their attacking him with arguments, parables, and tendentious questions.
If the sacerdotal laws allowed the reservation of judgments and the allegory of words, I would accept the proposed dignity on condition that I might be a philosopher at home, and abroad a narrator of apologues and parables.
Bishop Alcock took up his parable and told of Herefordian lore and great antiquities.
The poor, mangled, much-distorted text about the tree lying as it falls was brought to the fore once again, and, instead of bearing reference to universal charity and almsgiving as it was intended to do, was ruthlessly torn from its context and turned into a parable about the state of the soul at death.
X-Men, listening to the audience chuckle over the inane dialog, exclaiming at the second-rate special effects, such was the nature of my thoughts, and it occurred to me that not only was the film an exemplar of cultural decline, but a parable that might be interpreted as an illumination of our essential dilemma.
In his shorter tales an affinity may be felt with the parables of Hasidism, that pietist movement within Judaism which emphasized, over against the law of orthodoxy, mystic joy and divine immanence.
It was in the Umpqua Valley that they heard the parable of the white sparrow.
For the Bible is the unequaled record of thought and emotion, the reservoir of poetry, traditions, stories, parables, exaltations, consolations, great imaginative adventure, for which the spirit of man is always longing.
Wherefore, in some measure to compensate the injustice of Fortune, which to those whose strength is least, as we see it to be in the delicate frames of ladies, has been most niggard of support, I, for the succour and diversion of such of them as love (for others may find sufficient solace in the needle and the spindle and the reel), do intend to recount one hundred Novels or Fables or Parables or Stories, as we may please to call them, which were recounted in ten days by an honourable company of seven ladies and three young men in the time of the late mortal pestilence, as also some canzonets sung by the said ladies for their delectation.
Well, if we are 'gradualists', in the sense caricatured in the parable of the Israelites, we should expect something like the following.