(neuroanatomy) One of the divisions of the autonomic nervous system, based between the brain and the spinal cord, that slows the heart and relaxes muscles.

Of or pertaining to a paradigm. / (philosophy) Related as members of a substitution class. / (obsolete) Exemplary.

(historical, religion) A writer of memoirs of religious persons, as examples of Christian excellence.

(chiefly mathematics) Of, or pertaining to, or in the shape of a parabola or paraboloid. / (rhetoric) Of or pertaining to a parable.

(mathematics) A parabolic function, equation etc.

Having self-contradictory properties.

of, pertaining to, or having the characteristics of a parasite; parasitic

A parade featuring a progression of people wearing comic and grotesque costumes. / A rhetorical device employing a series of progressively more terrible results following from an act.

A paragraph in which all lines other than the first are indented

(psychiatry) A form of schizophrenia that is accompanied by delusions, either of persecution, grandeur or jealousy.