parabolize, v.
(pəˈræbəlaɪz)
[See -ize.]
1. a. trans. To express or represent parabolically; to set forth in a parable. Also absol.
| 1600 W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 20 Otherwise could not the church Catholike be..parabolized with a net cast into the sea. Ibid. 34 As our Sauiour Christ rightly parabolized of such. 1623 Doleful Even-Song 9 Which mercifull bounty..is here parabolized vnto vs by a certaine man that was a king [etc.]. 1847 Bushnell Chr. Nurt. ii. vii. (1861) 379 He [Christ] parabolizes the truth. |
b. To turn into, treat, or explain as a parable.
| 1851 G. S. Faber Many Mansions 329 Some would parabolise, or rather indeed..mythise, the several statements in the Book of Job and the Vision of Micaiah. |
2. To make parabolic or paraboloidal in shape.
| 1869 W. Purkiss in Eng. Mechanic 12 Nov. 208/2 Such curve being afterwards parabolised by the..polisher. 1878 Lockyer Stargazing 134 M. Foucault..proceeds in a different manner in parabolising his glass mirrors. |
Hence paˌraboliˈzation, the process of making parabolic or paraboloidal. paˈrabolizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also paˈrabolizer, one who parabolizes.
| 1691 Search after Wit 3 And who first shou'd Trump up, but the Parabolizers? 1702 C. Mather Magn. Chr. iii. ii. xiv. (1852) 420 The people then perceived the meaning of the parabolizer to be that [etc.]. 1819 G. S. Faber Dispensations (1823) II. 302 The parabolizing Arab. 1869 W. Purkiss in Eng. Mechanic 12 Nov. 208/3 The shorter the focal length, the more difficult the parabolising becomes. 1903 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 17 Oct. 23232/3 Draper's method of ‘parabolization by measure’. |