D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Parusia

/(pȧ*rṳ"zhĭ*ȧ)/ · Pa·ru·si·a · IPA
01 n. A figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past, or in the pr…
  1. 1.
    A figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past, or in the prediction of future, events.(Rhet.)