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Definition of Paraphrastic

Paraphrastic
Paraphrastic Par`a*phras"tic, Paraphrastical Par`a*phras"tic*al, a. [Gr.?: cf. F. paraphrastique.] Paraphrasing; of the nature of paraphrase; explaining, or translating in words more clear and ample than those of the author; not literal; free. -- Par`a*phras"tic*al*ly, adv.

Meaning of Paraphrastic from wikipedia

- the phrase Carthago delenda est in indirect speech. Instead, only a paraphrastic translation is the Gr**** rendering of the Catonian phrase by Plutarch...
- is formed with what was originally a suffix -i: The pluperfect is paraphrastically formed with the verb bon, "to be", and the past participle, which is...
- Minstrels (musical play, 1916; music by Byron ****) The Orpheus Road Show: A Paraphrastic Compendium of Mirth (musical play, 1917; music by Louis F. Gottschalk)...
- prudent flexibility in s****ing equivalents—"literal" where possible, paraphrastic where necessary—for the original meaning and other crucial "values" (e...
- Aquiline and Theodotiontic columns of the Hexapla, along with the somewhat paraphrastic style in which he translated, makes it difficult to determine exactly...
- are of two kinds, the incremental operations which add words, and the paraphrastic operations which change the phonemic shapes of words. The latter, Harris...
- Codex Bezae, contains text Luke 23:47-24:1 (paraphrastic)...
- comp**** it." As a result, the New English Bible is necessarily more paraphrastic at times in order to render the thoughts of the original author into...
- Codex Bezae, contains text Luke 23:47-24:1 (paraphrastic)...
- Standard Bible. Dynamic equivalence (or functional equivalence, sometimes paraphrastic translation) in which the translator attempts to render the sense and...