Crossword-Solution: PARAPHRASTICAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Paraphrastical | a. | Paraphrasing; of the nature of paraphrase; explaining, or translating in words more clear and ample than those of the author; not literal; free. |
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| of the nature of a paraphrase | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PARAPHRASTICAL (5)
Upon the whole, I consider the translation a good one, but I cannot help thinking that the author has been frequently too paraphrastical, and that in various places he must be utterly unintelligible to the Mandchous from having unnecessarily made use of words which are not Mandchou, and with which the Tartars cannot be acquainted.
The first strophe is eminently happy; in the second he has a little strayed from Pindar’s meaning, who says, “If thou, my soul, wishest to speak of games, look not in the desert sky for a planet hotter than the sun; nor shall we tell of nobler games than those of Olympia.” He is sometimes too paraphrastical.
That he understood his authors, cannot be doubted; but his versions will not teach others to understand them, being too licentiously paraphrastical.
His imitations of Horace are feebly paraphrastical, and the additions which he makes are of little value.
That he understood his authors cannot be doubted; but his versions will not teach others to understand them, being too licentiously paraphrastical.