paraphrastic
adjective
having the nature of a paraphrase.
paraphrastically
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a word derived from
paraphrastic.
Example Sentences
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In this list three poets are not spoken of directly by name, but, from metrical or other reasons, are alluded to paraphrastically.
From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by J. W. (John William) Mackail
The same meaning is thus paraphrastically conveyed:— By my official power, I swear, That you shall smell the country air.—Rebelliad, p.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
Amplified, augmented, and delivered paraphrastically in verse; by . . .
From The Library of William Congreve by John Cunyus Hodges
Licquet is paraphrastically warm in his version, here.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Both are selected by Sir Walter Scott as specimens of the bard, and may be found paraphrastically rendered in a prose version, in the Quarterly Review, vol. xlv., p.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
