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metaphrase

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????????? (metaphrázomai, “consider after”)

Noun

metaphrase (plural metaphrases)

a literal, word-for-word translation.
An answering phrase; repartee.
- I'm somewhat dull still in the manly art
  Of phrase and metaphrase. Why, any man
  Can carve a score of white Loves out of snow,
  As Buonarroti down in Florence there,
  And set them on the wall in some safe shade […]

Verb

metaphrase (third-person singular simple present metaphrases, present participle metaphrasing, simple past and past participle metaphrased)

to make such a literal translation.

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metaphrast

English

Noun

metaphrast (plural metaphrasts)

A person who uses metaphrase to re-cast a text in a different form, for example from poetry to prose.
A metaphrast has re-written Ian McEwan's book Atonement as a poem.

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