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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Parapegmnoun

    A brazen table fixed to a pillar, on which laws and proclamations were anciently engraved: also a table set up publickly, containing an account of the rising and setting of the stars, eclipses of the sun and moon, the seasons of the year, &c. whence astrologers give this name to the tables, on which they draw figures according to their art. Philips.

    Etymology: παϱαπήγμα, παϱαπήγνυμι.

    Our forefathers, observing the course of the sun, and marking certain mutations to happen in his progress through the zodiac, set them down in their parapegms, or astronomical canons. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Parapegmnoun

    an engraved tablet, usually of brass, set up in a public place

  2. Etymology: [L. parapegma, Gr. , fr. to fix beside; para` beside + to fix: cf. F. parapegme.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of parapegm in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of parapegm in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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