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par·a·phras·tic

 (păr′ə-frăs′tĭk) or par·a·phras·ti·cal (-tĭ-kəl)
adj.
Of, relating to, or having the nature of paraphrase.
[Medieval Latin paraphrasticus, from Greek paraphrastikos, from paraphrazein, to paraphrase; see paraphrase.]
par′a·phras′ti·cal·ly adv.

par•a•phras•tic

(ˌpær əˈfræs tɪk)

adj.
having the nature of a paraphrase.
[1615–25; < Medieval Latin paraphrasticus < Greek paraphrastikós=paraphrast(ḗs) one who paraphrases, derivative of paraphrázein to paraphrase (para- para-1 + phrázein to tell, declare) + -ikos -ic]
par`a•phras′ti•cal•ly, adv.
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Adj.1.paraphrastic - altered by paraphrasing
altered - changed in form or character without becoming something else; "the altered policy promised success"; "following an altered course we soon found ourselves back in civilization"; "he looked...with clouded eyes and with an altered manner of breathing"- Charles Dickens
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47) But Milton has not presented his translation as a paraphrastic substitute; he has printed it side by side with the original with an English headnote that invites readers to compare the two.
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To his references one may add that the fourteenth-century rabbi Judah Romano, in a paraphrastic commentary on the De anima, translated into Hebrew some passages of Albert the Great that cite Avicebron "in a work that he called the Source of Life.
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In a way Kalin's undeniable strengths also cause what might be called a minor weakness in the book, for the constant reliance on Sadra's course of argument occasionally renders the account somewhat paraphrastic, with quotes sometimes twice the length of their exposition.
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code Substitution higher or lower degree of naturalization (approximate) linguistic modernization equivalence topicalization nationalization Repetition total : non-translation, exoticization copy partial: calque, literal historization (through translation, word-for-word the mere intervention translation of time-place distance) Deletion reductive translation universalization abridged version under- dehistorization translation (through the removal of expressive reduction foreign cultural signs) Addition paraphrastic translation exoticization historiza- more explicit text tion (through the overtranslation positive addition of expressive amplification foreign cultural signs) Permutation (metatextual) (metatextual) compensation compensation Code S.
Historical identity of translation: from describability to translatability of time
Works written in this paraphrastic tradition, which abandoned the attempt to preserve the taste of the biblical verse, meter and rhyme, made a conscious attempt not to resemble the actual language of the Bible.
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