paralipomena

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This is why the parerga and paralipomena Roseznzweig produces are, to him, of no great importance.

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  1. Things omitted; collectively, a supplement containing things omitted in a preceding work: a collection of omitted passages. Those books of the Bible called First and Second Chronicles are also called Paralipomena,formerly Paralipomenon (a genitive form, see above). And as it is rehearsed in Paralipomenon [marg. lib. l, cap. 10]: One cause of his fal was for lacke of trust in God. Sir T. More, Cumfort against Tribulation (1573), fol. 42. The fragment given in the paralipomena to Faust, entitled Landstrasse, where Mephistopheles casts down his eyes and hurries past a cross by the wayside, follows, a hint of the later revelation of his character. Amer. Jour. Philol., VIII. 486.

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  • This is why the parerga and paralipomena Roseznzweig produces are, to him, of no great importance. —  Spurious
  • _This group contains paralipomena which baffle individual description. —  A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs
  • a few verses from Goethe, which I recently found in his paralipomena to _Faust_. —  Venus in Furs
 

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  1. = French paralipomènes, plural, formerly in English parolipomenon = Spanish Paralipómenon = Italian paralipomenon, paralippomenon, after the Late Latin genitive plural, from Late Latin paralipomena (in genitive plural paralipomenōn, in liber primus or secundus paralipomenon), from Greek παραλειπόμενα, things omitted, omissions (το\ βιβλίον τῶνπαραλειπομένων, the book of things omitted), present participle pass, of παραλείπειν, pass over, omit: see paralipsis.
 

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