parergy
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin parergon, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek πάρεργον (párergon); παρά (pará, “beside”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”).
Noun
parergy (plural parergies)
- (obsolete) Something unimportant, incidental, or superfluous.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “parergy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)