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periˈphrastically, adv. [f. prec. + -ly2.] In a periphrastic manner; by periphrasis.
1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. iv. 67 They may as well be expressed Periphrastically here as in all other Languages. 1791Boswell Johnson 21 Mar. an. 1776, They [rats] are thus..periphrastically exhibited in his poem..: ‘Nor with less waste the whisker'd vermin race, A countless clan, despoil the lowland cane’. 1865Pall Mall G. 3 Nov. 10 It is impossible to translate the sentence except periphrastically. |