Paradoxal
(Par"a*dox`al) a. Paradoxical. [Obs.]
Paradoxical
(Par`a*dox"ic*al) a.
1. Of the nature of a paradox.
2. Inclined to paradoxes, or to tenets or notions contrary to received opinions. Southey.
— Par`a*dox"ic*al*ly, adv. — Par`a*dox"ic*al*ness, n.
Paradoxer
(Par"a*dox`er) n., Paradoxist
(Par"a*dox`ist) n. One who proposes a paradox.
Paradoxides
(||Par`a*dox"i*des) n. [NL.] (Paleon.) A genus of large trilobites characteristic of the primordial
formations.
Paradoxology
(Par`a*dox*ol"o*gy) n. [Paradox + -logy.] The use of paradoxes. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
Paradoxure
(Par`a*dox"ure) n. [Gr. para`doxos incredible, paradoxical + o'yra` tail. So called because
its tail is unlike that of the other animals to which it was supposed to be related.] (Zoöl.) Any species of
Paradoxurus, a genus of Asiatic viverrine mammals allied to the civet, as the musang, and the luwack or
palm cat See Musang.
Paradoxy
(Par"a*dox`y) n.
1. A paradoxical statement; a paradox.
2. The quality or state of being paradoxical. Coleridge
Paraffin
(Par"af*fin) Paraffine
(Par"af*fine) , n. [F. paraffine, fr. L. parum too little + affinis akin. So
named in allusion to its chemical inactivity.] (Chem.) A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti,
tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used as
an illuminant and lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents.
It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several
higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether
solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus coal gas and kerosene consist largely of
paraffins.
In the present chemical usage this word is spelt paraffin, but in commerce it is commonly spelt paraffine.
Native paraffin. See Ozocerite. - - Paraffin series. See Methane series, under Methane.
Parage
(Par"age), n. [F., fr. L. par, adj., equal. Cf. Peerage, Peer an equal.]
1. (Old Eng. Law) Equality of condition, blood, or dignity; also, equality in the partition of an inheritance.
Spelman.
2. (Feudal Law) Equality of condition between persons holding unequal portions of a fee. Burrill.
3. Kindred; family; birth. [Obs.] Ld. Berners.
We claim to be of high parage.
Chaucer. Paragenesis
(Par`a*gen"e*sis) n. [Pref. para- + genesis.] (Min.) The science which treats of minerals
with special reference to their origin.
