paralipomenon

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/pæɹəlɪˈpɒmɪnɒn/

noun

Either of the Books of Chronicles in the Old Testament.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounparalipomenon (plural paralipomena)

plural paralipomena

  1. biblicalEither of the Books of Chronicles in the Old Testament.
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    There are other books, which seem of a different class, and are neither connected with the proceeding class, nor with each other; such is Job, such Tobias, and Esther, and Judith, and the two books of Machabees, and two of Esdras, which seem rather more to follow up that regular course of history, which closed with the Kingdoms, or the Paralipomenon: […]

    1846, James Waterworth, The Faith of Catholics, 3rd edition, volume 1, London, page 336
  2. plural normallyAn omission, especially one of a book, added later as a supplement.

    In a paralipomenon to the theses ‘On the Concept of History’ he writes: […]

    2005, Werner Hamacher, “‘Now’: Walter Benjamin on Historical Time”, in Andrew Benjamin, editor, Walter Benjamin and History, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 52

Origin

  1. Ancient GreekΠαραλειπομένων“of things omitted”
  2. Englishparalipomenon

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Παραλειπομένων (Paraleipoménōn, “of things omitted”) παραλείπω (paraleípō, “I leave remaining”).

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Translations

French paralipomènes
  • paralipomènessupplement
German Para­li­po­me­non
  • Para­li­po­me­nonsupplement

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