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Metaphrased
Metaphrased Met"a*phrased, a. Translated literally.

Meaning of Metaphrase from wikipedia

- Metaphrase is a term referring to literal translation, i.e., "word by word and line by line" translation. In everyday usage, metaphrase means literalism;...
- pół" ("half-and-half"). One of the two chief approaches to translation, "metaphrase"— also referred to as "formal equivalence", "literal translation", or...
- Unlike a metaphrase, which represents a "formal equivalent" of the source, a paraphrase represents a "dynamic equivalent" thereof. While a metaphrase attempts...
- sentence. In translation theory, another term for literal translation is metaphrase (as opposed to paraphrase for an analogous translation). It is to be distinguished...
- μετάφρασις (metaphrasis, "a speaking across"), has supplied English with "metaphrase" (a "literal", or "word-for-word", translation)—as contrasted with "paraphrase"...
- quem. Perhaps it is the time of the composition of Pseudo-Apollinaris' Metaphrase of the Psalms (c. 460), which seems to refer to Nonnus' poem. A complete...
- extension, which he named paraphrase, orthophrase, and metaphrase (otherwise paraphrase and metaphrase being translation terms). Paraphrase defines a facility...
- American Bible) Ecclesiastes at Bible Gateway (New King James Version) A Metaphrase of the Book of Ecclesiastes by Gregory Thaumaturgus. Ecclesiastes public...
- lights, please" for "Turn on the lights, please"). The expression is a metaphrase and is common among nonnative English speakers of Hebrew, Croatian, Filipino...
- Epistles (1680) Dryden proposed three different types of translation: metaphrase [...] or turning an author word for word, and line by line, from one language...