different between periphrased vs periphrase

English

Verb

periphrased

1. simple past tense and past participle of periphrase

English

Etymology

From Latin periphrasis from Ancient Greek ?????????? (períphrasis), from ???????????? (periphrázomai, “I consider all sides of an issue”), from ???? (perí, “around”) + ????? (phráz?, “I show, point out”). See phrase.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??i.f?e?z/
• Homophones: paraphrase (if the second vowel is pronounced as a schwa, as it sometimes is)

Noun

periphrase (countable and uncountable, plural periphrases)

1. (rhetoric) The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution.
   • 1821, Thomas De Quincey, John Paul Frederick Richter (published in London Magazine

     To describe all those on whom the fates of Troy hinged , by enigmatic periphrases

   • 1863, George Eliot, Romola, Volume III, Book III, Chapter VI, page 56

     He held up the condition of the Church in the terrible mirror of his unflinching speech, which called things by their right names and dealt in no polite periphrases […]

Synonyms

• periphrasis

Derived terms

• periphrasic

Translations

Verb

periphrase (third-person singular simple present periphrases, present participle periphrasing, simple past and past participle periphrased)

1. (transitive) To express by periphrase or circumlocution.
2. (intransitive) To use circumlocution.

References

periphrase in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.