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▪ I. periphrase, n.|ˈpɛrɪfreɪz|
[a. F. périphrase (1555 in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. periphrasis: see periphrasis.]
= periphrasis.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. vii. (Arb.) 166 Speaking..by periphrase or circumlocution when all might be said in a word or two. 1674Boyle Excell. Theol. i. iii. 85 The same infallible Teacher..imploys the vision of God as an emphatical periphrase of felicity. 1727Pope, etc. Art of Sinking 88 Periphrase is another great aid to prolixity. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt ii, Mr. Jermyn had a copious supply of words, which often led him into periphrase.
▪ II. periphrase, v.|ˈpɛrɪfreɪz|
[a. F. périphrase-r (Cotgr. 1611), f. périphrase periphrasis.]
1. trans. To express by periphrasis.
1624Quarles Job Pref., I commend to thee heere the Historie of Job, in part, Periphrased; in part, Abridged. 1814W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXIII. 475 Delille thus paraphrases and periphrases the passage.
2. intr. To use circumlocution; to speak or write periphrastically.
1652Gataker Antinom. 34 It would be over teadious..to be continually paraphrasing or periphrasing of them. 1828Webster, Periphrase, v. i. to use circumlocution. |