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metaphrast Related to metaphrast: poeticisingmet·a·phrast M0248100 (mĕt′ə-frăst′)n. One who renders a text into a different form, as by recasting prose in verse.
[Medieval Greek metaphrastēs, from Greek metaphrazein, to translate; see metaphrase.]metaphrast (ˈmɛtəˌfræst) n (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a person who metaphrases, esp one who changes the form of a text, as by rendering verse into prose[C17: from Medieval Greek metaphrastēs translator] ˌmetaˈphrastic, ˌmetaˈphrastical adj ˌmetaˈphrastically adv |