Crossword-Solution: METAPHRASE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Metaphrase | n. | A verbal translation; a version or translation from one language into another, word for word; -- opposed to paraphrase. |
| Metaphrase | n. | An answering phrase; repartee. |
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| the turning of prose into verse or vice versa | 1 answer |
| Literal translation | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or
grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous
silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular
variety.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with METAPHRASE (5)
The way I have taken is not so strait as metaphrase, nor so loose as paraphrase; some things, too, I have omitted, and sometimes have added of my own.
But most men, little recking what a small portion of the original they were reading, satisfied themselves with the Anglo French epitome and metaphrase.
His general theory may be stated as an aim at something between the literalness of metaphrase and the looseness of paraphase.
Ben Jonson, whose translation of Horace's _Art of Poetry_ is cited by Dryden as an example of "metaphrase, or turning an author word by word and line by line from one language to another,"[395] is perhaps largely responsible for the mistaken impression regarding the earlier translators.
See Para-, and Phrase.] Defn: A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; -- opposed to metaphrase.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1987).