metaphrastn.

Brit.

/ˈmɛtəfrast/, U.S.

/ˈmɛdəˌfræst/

Forms: 1600s– metaphrast, 1900s– metaphrastes.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin metaphrastes.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin metaphrastes (1607 in the passage translated in quot. 1610) < Byzantine Greek μεταϕράστης (in name of St Simeon Metaphrastes (fl. c960); in medieval Greek in sense ‘translator’) < Hellenistic Greek μεταϕράζειν (see metaphrasis n.) + -της, suffix forming agent nouns. Compare French métaphraste (17th cent.).Compare occasional use of the unassimilated form metaphrastes in English contexts:1950 Antiquity 24 52 They reveal Nicander as a metaphrastes.

Now rare (chiefly archaic or historical).

A person who paraphrases a literary work or puts a composition into a different literary form, e.g. by turning prose into verse, or one metre into another. Also: a translator, esp. one who makes a literal, word-for-word translation.Originally with reference to St Simeon Metaphrastes (fl. c960), a Byzantine hagiographer who modernized the style and presentation of the lives which he collected and edited.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > writers of other types of material

metaphrast1610

lasher1611

pastoralist1619

amorist1642

travel writer1711

party writer1715

Poor Richard1757

murdermonger1785

manners-painter1807

institutionalist1817

paroemiographer1823

nautical1831

nonsense-writera1835

recaster1841

serialist1845

snobographer1848

librettist1862

palindromist1872

fragmentist1874

text-man1900

scriptwriter1911

paradoxographer1917

absurdist1929

blogger1999

weblogger1999

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun] > one who translates

remenoura1382

translatora1382

interpreterc1384

turnera1387

reducerc1530

metaphrast1610

linguist1612

traducer1631

traductor1679

versionist1782

versionera1806

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 68 Simeon that great Metaphrast.

1642 R. Cudworth Disc. Lords Supper i. 13 For so both the Syriack Metaphrast expounds it..and the Arabick.

a1695 A. Wood Fasti Oxonienses (1815) 516 George Sandys, esq.; the famous traveller and excellent poetical metaphrast.

1778 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry II. 190 He [sc. Symeon] obtained the distinguishing appellation of the Metaphrast, because..he modernised the more antient narratives of the miracles and martyrdoms..for the use of the Greek church.

1896 J. W. Mackail Lat. Lit. (ed. 2) 128 The later metaphrasts, who occupied themselves with turning heroic into elegiac poems by inserting a pentameter between each two lines.

1957 D. Abse Tenants of House 35 Oh how much like Europe's gothic Past! This scene my nightmare's metaphrast.

1983 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Oct. 1120/5 The metaphrast respects the ‘ancientness’ and alienness of his author.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	metaphrast
释义	metaphrastn. Brit. /ˈmɛtəfrast/, U.S. /ˈmɛdəˌfræst/ Forms: 1600s– metaphrast, 1900s– metaphrastes. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin metaphrastes. Etymology: < post-classical Latin metaphrastes (1607 in the passage translated in quot. 1610) < Byzantine Greek μεταϕράστης (in name of St Simeon Metaphrastes (fl. c960); in medieval Greek in sense ‘translator’) < Hellenistic Greek μεταϕράζειν (see metaphrasis n.) + -της, suffix forming agent nouns. Compare French métaphraste (17th cent.).Compare occasional use of the unassimilated form metaphrastes in English contexts:1950 Antiquity 24 52 They reveal Nicander as a metaphrastes. Now rare (chiefly archaic or historical). A person who paraphrases a literary work or puts a composition into a different literary form, e.g. by turning prose into verse, or one metre into another. Also: a translator, esp. one who makes a literal, word-for-word translation.Originally with reference to St Simeon Metaphrastes (fl. c960), a Byzantine hagiographer who modernized the style and presentation of the lives which he collected and edited. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > writers of other types of material metaphrast1610 lasher1611 pastoralist1619 amorist1642 travel writer1711 party writer1715 Poor Richard1757 murdermonger1785 manners-painter1807 institutionalist1817 paroemiographer1823 nautical1831 nonsense-writera1835 recaster1841 serialist1845 snobographer1848 librettist1862 palindromist1872 fragmentist1874 text-man1900 scriptwriter1911 paradoxographer1917 absurdist1929 blogger1999 weblogger1999 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun] > one who translates remenoura1382 translatora1382 interpreterc1384 turnera1387 reducerc1530 metaphrast1610 linguist1612 traducer1631 traductor1679 versionist1782 versionera1806 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 68 Simeon that great Metaphrast. 1642 R. Cudworth Disc. Lords Supper i. 13 For so both the Syriack Metaphrast expounds it..and the Arabick. a1695 A. Wood Fasti Oxonienses (1815) 516 George Sandys, esq.; the famous traveller and excellent poetical metaphrast. 1778 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry II. 190 He [sc. Symeon] obtained the distinguishing appellation of the Metaphrast, because..he modernised the more antient narratives of the miracles and martyrdoms..for the use of the Greek church. 1896 J. W. Mackail Lat. Lit. (ed. 2) 128 The later metaphrasts, who occupied themselves with turning heroic into elegiac poems by inserting a pentameter between each two lines. 1957 D. Abse Tenants of House 35 Oh how much like Europe's gothic Past! This scene my nightmare's metaphrast. 1983 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Oct. 1120/5 The metaphrast respects the ‘ancientness’ and alienness of his author. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1610
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