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

I must remind him that, while the majority of these translations aim at literal exactness and close imitation of the originals in rhyme and structure, others are more paraphrastic.

From Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse by Symonds, John Addington

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 Tinker, Chauncey Brewster

It is accomplished by a persevering exercise of the principle which has been illustrated above, and which is exemplified in the paraphrastic exercise.

From A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education by Gall, James

But there is another danger in this paraphrastic method.

From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Tinker, Chauncey Brewster

The translations I have given are sometimes paraphrastic, and virtually contain glosses or interpretations which make it necessary to warn the reader against regarding them as in every case Dante's ipsissima verba.

From Dante Six Sermons by Wicksteed, Philip H.