▪ I. † parietary, n. Obs.
(ˈpærɪətərɪ)
Forms: α. 4–5 paritorie, 5 paritarie, (paratory, pyritorie), 5–6 peritorie, (-yt-, -ye), 6 paritory; β. 6 parietary, -orie, -ory, 6–7 -arie.
[ME. and AF. paritarie = OF. paritaire (13th c.), mod.F. pariétaire, ad. L. parietāria i.e. herba parietāria, from parietāri-us: see next.]
The herb Pellitory (Parietaria officinalis).
| c 1386 Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 28 Ful of Plantayne and of Paritorie [v.rr. peritorie, permytorye, Pyritorie]. c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 219 Leues of malue..& peritorie. 14.. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 602/10 Peritoria, Perytorye. c 1475 Pict. Voc. ibid. 787/26 Hoc colitropium, a paratory. 1538 Turner Libellus. Helxine, Latinis parietaria dicitur, vulgo Paritory. 1578 Lyte Dodoens i. xxxiv. 50 Parietorie is singuler against cholerike inflammations. 1696 Phillips (ed. 5), Parietarie..commonly called Pellitory of the Wall. |
▪ II. parietary, a. rare—1.
(pəˈraɪɪtərɪ)
[ad. L. parietāri-us, f. paries, pariet-em wall: see paries and -ary.]
= parietal a. 2.
| 1881 Nation (N.Y.) XXXII. 442 The snuffing out of the school by a parietary regulation of President Wayland's. |