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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 Wright, R. W.

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 Müller, Max

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 Saintsbury, George