Citations:parœmial

Adjective

 * 1843, unknown, The Knickerbocker, Volume XXII., page #123:
 * The proverbs of Solomon, apart from their inspiration, are of clearer and more comprehensive wisdom than all the parœmial precepts of the world beside.
 * 1855, George Bush, The New Church Herald and Monthly Repository, Volume VIII., page #335:
 * This is indeed very convenient in point of reference, but then the space might have been occupied with the large additions to the stock of proverbs gathered from the parœmial stores of all nations, for there is no people but have their own national sayings and saws, the one supplying the defects of another.