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paralleled


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Parallel  \Par"al*lel\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Paralleled};  p.  pr 
  &  vb  n.  {Paralleling}.] 
  1.  To  place  or  set  so  as  to  be  parallel;  to  place  so  as  to  be 
  parallel  to  or  to  conform  in  direction  with  something 
  else. 
 
  The  needle  .  .  .  doth  parallel  and  place  itself  upon 
  the  true  meridian.  --Sir  T. 
  Browne. 
 
  2.  Fig.:  To  make  to  conform  to  something  else  in  character, 
  motive,  aim  or  the  like 
 
  His  life  is  paralleled  Even  with  the  stroke  and  line 
  of  his  great  justice.  --Shak. 
 
  3.  To  equal;  to  match;  to  correspond  to  --Shak. 
 
  4.  To  produce  or  adduce  as  a  parallel.  [R.]  --Locke. 
 
  My  young  remembrance  can  not  parallel  A  fellow  to 
  it  --Shak. 




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