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English → English (gcide) Definition: Parnassian Parnassian \Par*nas"sian\, n. [F. parnassien.] One of a school of French poets of the Second Empire (1852-70) who emphasized metrical form and made little use of emotion as poetic material; -- so called from the name (Parnasse contemporain) of the volume in which their first poems were collected in 1866. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Parnassian \Par*nas"sian\, a. [L. Parnassius.] Of or pertaining to Parnassus. [1913 Webster] Parnassian \Par*nas"sian\, n. [See Parnassus.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to the genus Parnassius. They inhabit the mountains, both in the Old World and in America. [1913 Webster]