单词 | paraphrastical |
释义 | paraphrasticaladj. Now rare. = paraphrastic adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > paraphrase > [adjective] paraphrasian1548 paraphrastical1549 paraphrastic1683 1549 M. Coverdale in M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Ded. Acts sig. ii Erasmus..hath by a paraphrasticall discourse plainly sette foorth the ghospelles of the fower Euangelistes. 1606 J. Day Ile of Guls ii. l. 960 I had paraphrasticall admonitions of all sortes. ?1611 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Iliads Pref. sig. A3v They..are ten parts more paraphrastical then I. 1686 R. Boyle Free Enq. Notion Nature 39 To..bear with some Paraphrastical Expressions. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 299 [It] may stand in full Defyance of ever being express'd, even with any Paraphrastical Periphrasis, or any Pantoglossical Mint of Words. 1781 S. Johnson West in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets X. 7 He is sometimes too paraphrastical. 1844 Biblical Repertory Apr. 311 It is no small merit to have avoided the paraphrastical weakness. 1977 Archivum Linguisticum 8 10 This paraphrastical relation..does not characterize the respective sentences of [examples] (67)–(72). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1549 |
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