Associations to the word «Parabasis»

Wiktionary

PARABASIS, noun. The part of an Ancient Greek comedy in which the actors leave the stage and the chorus addresses the audience directly.

Wise words

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.