paraphrasticallyadv.

1557 T. Paynell in tr. Sallust Hist. Jugurth Ded. The whiche because the reader shulde most redelie and plainely vnderstande and perceiue the thinge, dothe paraphrasticallie so open the hole matter.

1582 R. Stanyhurst in tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis 90 (title) Thee Fovrth Psalme, Named, Cum inuocarem, paraphrasticalye translated in too English Saphick verse.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iii. viii. 148 The duty of their teachers..must needes be somewhat more, then only to read the sentences of scripture, and then paraphrastically to scholie them.

1650 J. Howell Addit. Lett. xxi. 34 in Epistolæ Ho-elianæ (ed. 2) Evry language hath certain Idiomes,..which are not rendible in any other but paraphrastically.

1697 tr. F. Burgersdijck Monitio Logica ii. viii. 32 If the Dictum of All and None be Paraphrastically propounded.

1739 D. Bellamy Innocence Betray'd ii. (title page) Select Æsopian Tales, in Prose and Verse paraphrastically translated from Phrædrus, Cambray, and Others.

1778 R. Lowth Isaiah (ed. 12) Notes 135 I have been forced to render this line paraphrastically; as the verbal translation..would have been unintelligible.

1812 L. Hunt in Examiner 28 Sept. 618/2 She was plain in her dress, or, more paraphrastically, in the manner of adorning herself.

1935 Amer. Lit. 7 198 Chapter I..follows it closely, if at times paraphrastically.

1994 Appl. Linguistics 15 256 The entity underground tuber is paraphrastically referred to.., thus receiving its second mention.