单词 | metaphrasis |
释义 | metaphrasisn. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun] > metrical metaphrasisa1568 metaphrase1607 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > other types of poem > [noun] > metrical version > metrical translation metaphrasisa1568 metaphrase1607 a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 39v Metaphrasis..is all one with Paraphrasis, saue it is out of verse, either into prose, or into some other kinde of meter: or els, out of prose into verse. 2. A paraphrase or metaphrase (see metaphrase n. 1); (also) the process of paraphrasing or translating. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun] > word for word constructiona1387 metaphrasis1603 metaphrase1680 literalism1833 transverbation1885 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 984 Some rhetoricall figures, catachreses and metaphrases [Gk. καταχρήσεις καὶ μεταϕορὰς]. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Metaphrasis, a bare Translation out of one Language into another. 1804 W. Neilson (title) Greek exercises in syntax, ellipsis, dialects, prosody, and metaphrasis. 1870 T. Slater (title) A metaphrasis: a metrical version of the Book of Psalms, made by Apollinarius. 1964 Speculum 39 354 For a long time this Vita was known to us only through the elaborate metaphrasis by Nicephorus Ouranos. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1568 |
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