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paraphrastic

American

[par-uh-fras-tik] / ˌpær əˈfræs tɪk /

adjective

having the nature of a paraphrase.

Other Word Forms

paraphrastically adverb

Etymology

Origin of paraphrastic

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

Example Sentences

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Adj. imitated &c. v.; mock, mimic; modelled after, molded on. paraphrastic; literal; imitative; secondhand; imitable; aping, apish, mimicking.

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

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

Commentaries and translations are numerous in German and in English; the translations by Denis Florence MacCarthy are the most satisfactory, Edward Fitzgerald's being too paraphrastic.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Warner, Charles Dudley

To this opinion we shall the rather incline, if we attend to another paraphrastic interpretation.

From The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets by Lord, Eleazar

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

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