comparison (1 perhaps there is a suggestion of ‘caparison’ intended)
1.
pl. Ant. III. xi. [xiii.] 26 “his
gay comparisons,” advantages which
appear when we are compared.
2.
satirical or scoffing
simile Ado II. i. 154,
LLL. V. ii. 852
“Full of comparisons and
wounding flouts.”
