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from The Century Dictionary.
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paraphrastic .
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paraphrastic .
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A paraphrastical recapitulation of those things which are taught in the first four verses of the eighth chapter, and their connection with the preceding chapter.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2 1560-1609 1956
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That he understood his authors cannot be doubted; but his versions will not teach others to understand them, being too licentiously paraphrastical.
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His imitations of Horace are feebly paraphrastical, and the additions which he makes are of little value.
Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Johnson, Samuel 1891
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We give a sort of paraphrastical synopsis of the poem, which, partly in virtue of its disagreeableness, will enable the lovers of the song to return to it with an increase of pleasure.
A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare George MacDonald 1864
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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.
Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society George Henry Borrow 1842
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The proof, if it required any, that a Frenchman cannot understand the idiomatic style of Shakspeare appears in a French translator, who prided himself on giving a verbal translation of our great poet, not approving of Le Tourneur's paraphrastical version.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807
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To the miscellanies succeed the Anacreontiques, or paraphrastical translations of some little poems, which pass, however justly, under the name of Anacreon.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746
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That he understood his authors cannot be doubted; but his versions will not teach others to understand them, being too licentiously paraphrastical.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746
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To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontics, or paraphrastical translations of some little poems, which pass, however justly, under the name of Anacreon.
Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley Samuel Johnson 1746
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His imitations of Horace are feebly paraphrastical, and the additions which he makes are of little value.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746
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