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PAR

gree, Ihis, wilh Ihe olher bells Ihal have p.lfed both

houres, is

brought

down to

lhe

king in

lhe

houre o(

Jords,

\Vho cernes thither c10athed in his royal robes

befare

him the cJerk of ,he par/iamenl reads the .itle of eaeh

bill, ar:d as he reads, (he cJerk of lhe crown pronounces

•he royal alfent or dilfon,.

i, be a public bill, the royal

a(fcnt is given in theCe words,

Le rOlle

VIJu/,

ccThe king

wilJ

have

pri\f:ite,

So;,

fail

comme

ejl

difré,

.. Let the requefl be complied with:" if the king refufes Ihe

bill,

lhe

anh\/er ¡s,

Le ro)

I'oviftra,

"The

kJng will

tbillk

and

be a money_bill, the an{wer is.

Le ro}

re1l!t:rcie ¡el

lo)'oux

/uj~lJ,

accrple

üur

b~nevo

Jene.,

alljJi

"mI;

"The king .hanks his Ioyal fub·

jeéls, accepts their benevoleDce, and therefore grants his

CODrent.

P ARL1AMENTS

of France,

arefovereign caun!, efiablilhcd

by .he kiog, 6nally tO determine all difputes between par·

ticular perCons, aod

pronoullce on appeals from fen·

..nces giveo by inferior j"dges. There are leo of .hefe

pa.rl

~aments

in France, of whicb lbat of París is tbe cbief,

jts privileges and jurifdiélioo. being of ,he greatefrexten•.

Jt confins of fix chambers,

viz.

the graod ehamber,

whcre cauCes of audience are pleaded; and

hve

chambers

of ioquefi, where p}ocelf" are adjudged

",ri,i9g This

parliamen, enjoys

,he

privileges nf verifying and,rcgiflring

,he king's arrets or ediél"

~jthou.

which .hole ediéls are

of li"le or no value.

PARL'AMENT

o[ S.vrden.

cooGns offourefl'les, wi.h Ihe

kiog

.hei r head : Thefe flates are, •. The oobility .nd

repre[entatives of

the

gentry; with whom the

culooc:l~,

licutcoant·coloneJs, majors, and captains of every regi–

menl, fit aod vo.e.

2 .

The clergy ; ooe of whicb body j,

elet'ted (rom evcry rural deanery of (en parilhes; who.

witb the bifhops and fuperintendants, amount to about

t\Vo·hundred.

The burghers, eleéled by ,he

magiflr.~s

and couneil of every eorporatioD as their reprefentatives,

of whom Ihere aTe four for Slockholm, and ,wn for every

otber town, amouoting

the wbole to aboul an huo–

dred and 6fty. 4. The peafanlS, chafen by Ihe peafanlS

out of every dillría; who chufe ooe of their own rank,

~nd

no. a gentleman,

reprefc.nl

!hem: Ihefe amoun'

to .bou, IWO hundred and fif.y.

AH thefe geDer.Jly mee'

Slockholm; and

af.er

the

flate ·afFairs have been reprefented to them from ,he ,brone,

Ihey feparare, ana fi. in four feveral chambers or houfes,

in eaeh of which affaírs are,carricd

majorityof votes;

and every

~hamber

has a nega,ive in tlle palliog any law.

PARMA, Ihe capital of theduchy of Parma, io ltaly, fi>uy

miles north·eafl nf Genna, is pleafantly fi.u3led

a ri·

ver to which it gives name : E. 1ong.

11 0 ,

N. Jat,

44°

4)'.

PARNASSIA, in bOlaoy, a genus of the pentandria

IeO ra·

gynia clafs. The calix confifls of five fegOleO", and the

corolla of five petals; jt has five cordated ncétaria, Wilh

round buuons on their paints

and the caprule has four

valves, There is bU( ane fpecics,

víz,

the palullris, or

"nra[s of Parna(fu5, íI.native of BritaiD.

PARNASSUS , a mounlain ofGreece, much cclebrated by

.aorient poets, fituateu near CaCho in Livadia.

PARODY, a popular maxim, adage, nr proverb.

Parody is alfo a poetical pleafantry, confitling in ap·

¡>Iying the verfes wrillen on one fubjcél, by w.y of ri·

dicu le to another ; or in

turni~l

a fcrious wotk into,a

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burlefq ue, by aíTeéliog to obfe, ve, as "e.rly as Fcllible,

the fdme rhymes, wo:-ds , and cadences.

PARONOMASIA, in rhetoric, a pun; or a figure ,,,hcro–

by words oearly alike in fouod, bu. of ..ry diíTc,ent

meaniogs, are aíTeéledly or defigoedly ufed .

PAROS, nne .of ,he fmallefl iOand. of ,he Cyclades, fa·

mous for ilS .marble, fi.uated in E. long. 25 ° 30', N.

lar.

36° 30'.

PA.ROTIDES,.. in anaromy. See AWATOMV,

P. 270'

PAROXYSM, in medicine, the (evere fit of a dir..

f~,

un·

der which it grow.s highc:r, or e>u[perates, as of the gout,

cre.

PARRELS, in a Olip, are frames made of "ucks,

rib~,

and ropes, which having both ,heir enqs ¡ anened

the

yards, are fo contdved, as to go round about {he mans ;

that the yard., by their meaos, may go up and do" o "p.

on ,he nufl; Ihefe alfo, with the breafl. ropes, fallen the

yards

,he mall, .

PARRICIDE. See LAW, TII. xxxiii.

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PARROT, in ornithology. See PS.TTACUS.

PARSLEY, io bOlany. See Ap'UM.

PARSNEP, in botany. SeeP, sT 'NA CA .

PARSON, the reélor or iocumbent of a paoiOt·chu rch .

PARSONAGE, a reélory or parilh.chllPCh, cQdowed witb

hou[e, glebe, Jands, tithes,

ó c.

for the mainten;¡,oee

of a' miniller, ",iUI cure of fouls wÍthin fueh parilh .

PARTS

fpeech,

in grarnmar, are all the fans of word.

which en",r .he compofition of difcourfe. See G

RAO\-

MAR.

PARTERRE, in gardoning, a level divifion of ground,

whicb, for ,he mo(l p.n, faces the fOUlh and be!l frOl\t

of i n boufe; ana i. generallf furnilhed with greeqs, Bow–

ers,

&c.

PARTHENIUM, io bOlaoy, a genu, of the monrecia pen–

tandria

cl.cs

. The common calix of ,he male confiOs of

five lea..,; and ,he caralla of Ihe dilh

are

monopetalous.

The corollz of the radius in ,he femal,

are

five; I\VOof

tach

fiJe

are males, and

{he

intt:rmediate one fem le.

bove a

nak.ed

feed. T.here are IWO fpeciel, none of ibeJll

natives

of Briuin.

PARTHIA, a cowntry of

AG.,

formerly fn caHed, G,uated

.Imofl io the middle of the mndero Perfia.

PARTI,P"'TIE, PA'TV, orPAR.TEO , ioheraldry, isap.

plied

a O,ield or efeuteheon, deno.iog it divided or

marked out into partitians.

Parti per pale is \Vhen the Olido i. divided

pfrp~ndi.

eularly into I\VO

halve~,

by a CUI in .he middle from

'O?

bOllom. See PIare CXXXIV. fig. , •.

Parti per fef, is when Ihe cut is '!Crors Ihe miéd:e,

trom Gde to fideo

Parti per"bcnd dexter, iswhen the Cut comen from the

upper corner of the lhield, ,on the right

h.nd

, and de ..

f~ends

athwart to the opporite lower cornero

Pa~ti

per bend finifier, is when tbe cut, coming (r(lm

~he

upp«

lef,

corner, defeend, acrofs tO .he oppofi,e

Jower ooe.

Fro)11 Ihefe four p.rtilions have proceeded.n iofini.e

numbcr

others, of

variou~

aud extravagant forms,

P ARTICIPLE, in gram",,,, an

adj~élive

forOl ed of •

\'erb, fa called beo.ufe il participares p.trtly of

ti..

pru·

perties of

nouo, and partly of thofe al' a verbo

S<o

GRAI'''~1AR.

PARTICLE, in phyGology, the minu.e f"l of a

b(,rt~·,

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