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Parable vs Bispel - What's the difference?

parable | bispel |

As nouns the difference between parable and bispel

is that parable is a short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy while bispel is (lb) a proverb or parable.

As a verb parable

is to represent by parable.

As an adjective parable

is (obsolete) that can easily be prepared or procured; obtainable.

parable

English

(wikipedia parable)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (=modern) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy
    • ''In the New Testament the parables told by Jesus convey His message, as in "The parable of the prodigal son"
    ''Catholic sermons normally draw on at least one Biblical lecture, often parables .
    Related terms
    * palaver * parabola * parabole * parole

    See also

    * fable * allegory * pericope * simile

    Verb

    (parabl)
  • To represent by parable.
    • Which by the ancient sages was thus parabled . — Milton.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) That can easily be prepared or procured; obtainable.
  • *, vol.1, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.306:
    • The most parable and easy, and about which many are employed, is to teach a school, turn lecturer or curate [...].
    (Sir Thomas Browne)

    Anagrams

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    bispel

    English

    Noun

  • (lb) A proverb or parable.
  • *1983 , Marianne Powell, Fabula Docet :
    • Helmut de Boor offers a similarly narrow definition of the nature of morals to be drawn from fables. Opposing "bispel'" and fable he sums up the differences as regards this aspect: "The '''bispel''' aims at cognition, the fable gives practical knowledge, and in so far as an educational aim is involved the ' bispel aims at improving man, the fable at making him wiser."
  • *1998 , Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 7 :
    • Such episodes and events were used to illustrate and justify more general or abstract 'philosophical' statements in much the same way as exempla or bispel' 'edifying illustrative stories' were used in medieval sermons. And just as we have collections of exempla and ' bispel from medieval times onwards in Europe, [...]
  • *2008 , Janie Steen, Verse and Virtuosity :
    • In adopting the bipartite structure, then, the Phoenix-poet demonstrates that this poem is a 'two-fold story,' a bispel .
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