释义 |
metaˈphrastically, adv. [Formed as prec. + -ly2.] By way of metaphrase.
1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1663) 73 Some report that he presumed metaphrastically to alter the words of the Apostle, correcting as it were the order of the phrase. 1652T. Manley Afflict. Saints title-p., The whole Booke of Job, composed into English Heroicall Verse, metaphrastically. 1894R. Fenton in W. W. Lloyd E. Fenton 121 Which we may metaphrastically translate:—Milton, now, a disappointed, blind, distressed old man. |