metaphrast
noun
a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.
metaphrastic
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a word derived from
metaphrast.
Example Sentences
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It was reserved to Dryden manfully to claim and vindicate the freedom of a just translation; more limited than paraphrase, but free from the metaphrastic severity exacted from his predecessors.
From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by George Saintsbury
The formation of such phrases as the French j'aimerai, for j'ai à aimer, or the English, I shall do, thou wilt do, may be called analytical or metaphrastic.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
But such a poor metaphrastic and half-circular exposition of vital force would never answer the necessities of that profounder profundity required for the success of modern scientific treatises.
From Life: Its True Genesis by R. W. Wright
