parapegm

English

Etymology

Latin parapegma, Ancient Greek to fix beside: compare French parapegme.

Noun

parapegm (plural parapegms)

An engraved tablet, usually of brass, set up in a public place.
Parapegms were used for the publication of laws, proclamations, and the recording of astronomical phenomena or calendar events.

Related terms

parapegma

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “parapegm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)