paraphrastic

American  

[par-uh-fras-tik] / ˌpær əˈfræs tɪk /

adjective

1. having the nature of a paraphrase.

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Other Word Forms

• paraphrastically adverb

Etymology

Origin of paraphrastic

1615–25; < Medieval Latin paraphrasticus < Greek paraphrastikós. See paraphrast, -ic

Example Sentences

On our own part, we beg to add, that we understand the style of the translator is more paraphrastic than can be approved by those who are acquainted with the singularly curious original.

From The Talisman by Scott, Walter, Sir

In aesthetic translations, such as those which are word for word or interlinear, or paraphrastic translations, are to be looked upon as simple commentaries on the original.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto

Adj. explanatory, expository; explicative, explicatory; exegetical†; construable. polyglot; literal; paraphrastic, metaphrastic†; consignificative†, synonymous; equivalent &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

Hill was apparently the first to prove the esthetic loss in such a practice by an analysis of particular paraphrastic expansions.

From 'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation by Pahl, Gretchen Graf

And Wiffen, though elegant and even poetical, did an unfortunate thing for Tasso, when he gave an additional line and a number of paraphrastic thoughts to a stanza already tending to the superfluous.

From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 by Dante Alighieri