paraphrastic
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of paraphrastic
1615–25; < Medieval Latin paraphrasticus < Greek paraphrastikós. See paraphrast, -ic
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The, in any case, paraphrastic quotation or quotations which find a parallel in Matt. vii.
From The Gospels in the Second Century An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled 'Supernatural Religion' by William Sanday
But there is another danger in this paraphrastic method.
From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker
Grundtvig’s translation4 had been so paraphrastic as often to obscure the sense, and always the spirit, of the original.
From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker
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 Benedetto Croce
Many of the quotations from the Old Testament in the New are highly paraphrastic.
From The Gospels in the Second Century An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled 'Supernatural Religion' by William Sanday
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