The same kind of paraphrastic dilution runs through the volume; nor is.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time] Reference

The following are a few specimens of the paraphrastic exercise, as employed upon different subjects.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education] Reference

This mental capacity is most likely to be acquired by the regular and persevering use of the paraphrastic exercise.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education] Reference

It is almost too much when, as from the pulpit, a paraphrastic commentary is prepared for our spiritual improvement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference

A similar collateral advantage, which will arise from the persevering use of the paraphrastic exercise, deserves a separate consideration.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education] Reference

It is accomplished by a persevering exercise of the principle which has been illustrated above, and which is exemplified in the paraphrastic exercise.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education] Reference

What follows is my very rough paraphrase-translation of the French it is only paraphrastic, although a fairly close one; for a closer translation, see Jolley-Scott 210ff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why God Likes Bugs] Reference

I mean also the ability to decode even mildly complex uses of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary and thus to analyze and understand a written text on a paraphrastic, much less a fully "literary," level.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ode on a Grecian Urn] Reference

Many methods have been devised to effect this, and with more or less success; -- but we believe the most efficient, because the most natural and simple, is that which has been engrafted upon the paraphrastic exercise.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education] Reference

This last is but a paraphrastic rendering of the name.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

But there is another danger in this paraphrastic method.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography] Reference

Sometimes English simply had no equivalent that was not very paraphrastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet RMFO Blog] Reference

Heyne is never paraphrastic -- he never adds anything foreign to the poem.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography] Reference

The extract illustrates the paraphrastic nature of parts of the translation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography] Reference

From his pages I have quoted the paraphrastic version of Suetonius that follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III] Reference

At first the translations were oral, being largely paraphrastic interpretations with comments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference

The French rendering is too paraphrastic; but, although my classical friends, or rather my friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions of a Book-Lover] Reference

I am aware that my translations may appear to Icelandic eyes somewhat too paraphrastic, at least in certain parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Passion-Hymns of Iceland] Reference

The same need was met in Palestine and Babylonia by the free paraphrastic translations into Aramaic known as the Targums.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

Chaucer's translation is sometimes very close, sometimes rather free and paraphrastic, as may be seen in the following examples.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

Hill was apparently the first to prove the esthetic loss in such a practice by an analysis of particular paraphrastic expansions.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation] Reference

Perhaps these paraphrastic renderings are what Dr. Hall is referring to when he says in his preface, regarding the nature of the translation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography] Reference

I air no religious prig, puffing myself, and trusting to forms, making long prayers in the market-place '(Mark's quotations were paraphrastic).    From Wordnik.com.  [Wylder's Hand] Reference

I have omitted four Odes altogether, one in each Book, and some stanzas of a fifth; and in some other instances I have been studiously paraphrastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace] Reference

Another with a paraphrastic commentary in the text was given out at Madrid (1823) by Amat, but the work is said to have been taken from a manuscript of Father.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference

Sale has, however, followed Maracci too closely, especially by introducing his paraphrastic comments into the body of the text, as well as by his constant use of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Koran (Al-Qur'an)] Reference

In aesthetic translations, such as those which are word for word or interlinear, or paraphrastic translations, are to be looked upon as simple commentaries on the original.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference

Linguistically, this Targum approaches most closely that of Onkelos; in grammatical construction the two are alike but the words used differ, and this Targum is more paraphrastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

I must remind him that, while the majority of these translations aim at literal exactness and close imitation of the originals in rhyme and structure, others are more paraphrastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse] Reference

On our own part, we beg to add, that we understand the style of the translator is more paraphrastic than can be approved by those who are acquainted with the singularly curious original.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Talisman] Reference

D departs more widely than any other Greek codex from the ordinary text, compared with which as a standard, it is characterized by numerous additions, paraphrastic renderings, inversions, and some omissions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

“logical” (i.e., non-metaphysical) method of interpretation and a paraphrastic mode of exposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Byzantine Philosophy] Reference

Stedman said was too paraphrastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions of a Book-Lover] Reference