metaphrastically
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metaphrastically — met·a·phras·ti·cal·ly … English syllables
metaphrast — metaphrastic, metaphrastical, adj. metaphrastically, adv. /met euh frast /, n. a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse. [1600 10; MGk metaphrástes one who translates, equiv. to *metaphrad … Universalium
metaphrastic — (adj.) 1778, from Gk. metaphrastikos paraphrastic, from metaphrasis paraphrase, from metaphrazein to paraphrase, translate, from meta (see META (Cf. meta )) + phrazein to show, tell (see PHRASE (Cf. phrase) (n.)). Related: metaph … Etymology dictionary
