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paraˈphrastically, adv. [f. prec. + -ly2.] In a paraphrastic manner, by way of paraphrase.
1557Paynel Barclay's Jugurth Ded., The whiche, because the reader shulde most redelie and plainely vnderstande and perceiue the thinge, doth paraphrasticallie so open the hole matter. c1645Howell Lett. II. iii. xxi. 545 Every language hath certain idioms..which are not rendible in any other, but paraphrastically. 1778R. Lowth lsaiah Notes (ed. 12) 135, I have been forced to render this line paraphrastically; as the verbal translation..would have been unintelligible. 1812L. Hunt in Examiner 28 Sept. 618/2 She was plain in her dress, or, more paraphrastically, in the manner of adorning herself. |