Definition of Parerga

1. parergon [n] - See also: parergon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parerga

parenthoods
parenting
parentings
parentism
parentless
parentlike
parents
parents-in-law
pareo
pareos
parepicele
parepididymis
parepithymia
parer
parerethisis
parerga (current term)
parergasia
parergon
parers
pares
pareses
paresis
parestheses
paresthesia
paresthesias
paresthesis
paresthetic
parethmoid
parethmoids
paretic

Literary usage of Parerga

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Teuffels̓ History of Roman Literature by Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel (1891)
"... parerga 194. MOMMSEN, BG. 1', 905. 113. ... parerga 197. 104. See also § 30, 1. 107, 4.—On Fabius and Popillius cf. § 125, 5. ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1901)
"... The Fall of the Roman Republic : a sb History of the last Century of the Commo wealth,' London, 1853, 8vo; 5th edit. IS" He also edited as parerga ' C. ..."

3. Life of Richard Wagner by Carl Friedrich Glasenapp, William Ashton Ellis (1908)
"Wagner and Liszt laid up ; Liszt set to the parerga.—St Gallen concert and farewell banquet.—" On Liszt's Symphonic Poems. ..."

4. Thomas Carlyle and John Stuart Mill by Edward Jenks (1888)
"CHAPTER V. parerga. A FEW words will suffice to add to our former accounts of Carlyle and Mill a short notice of the works which they produced beyond those ..."

5. A Chronology and Practical Bibliography of Modern German Literature by John Scholte Nollen (1903)
"parerga und Paralipomena.—Kuskin, Stones of Venice (-1853). Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables. 1852 Webster, Moore, and Gogol died. ..."

6. Dorothea Beale of Cheltenham by Elizabeth Raikes (1908)
"CHAPTER XIII parerga ' All the great mystics have been energetic and influential, and their business capacity is specially noted in a curiously large number ..."

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