Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who paraphrases; a paraphraser.
Wiktionary
- n. rare someone who paraphrases
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A paraphraser.
Examples
“Chaldean paraphrast Jonathan, and twist about the words of”
“More correct is the explanation of the Chaldean paraphrast, ` Is it true that God has forbidden? etc. ”
“Going forward, on the south part, was the tower Meah: and beyond that, "the tower of Hananeel": in the Chaldee paraphrast it is, 'The tower Piccus,”
“The Chaldee paraphrast thus renders the words They shall ask after me, because they are carried away.”
“The Talmudists do concur also in the same sense with the Chaldee paraphrast, and in his very words; adding this moreover, -- that all those places, which are numbered-up by Isaiah in the place alleged, were travelled through by the enemy with his army in one day.”
“If not, which is my opinion, then it is probable that the Chaldee paraphrast gave the sense that most obtained in the nation at that time, with which that of the Greek accords well enough ...”
“The Chaldee paraphrast and the Rabbins understand this of the place where the army of the Assyrians perished: nor very subtily; for they seem to have perished, if so be they perished near”
“Latin interpreter of the Chaldee paraphrast follows there: nor without good reason.”
“And to this doth that in some measure attest which the Talmudists relate concerning the paraphrast of the prophets, that when he went about to paraphrase also the Hagiographa, or holy writings, he was forbidden by Bath Kol, saying, That he must abstain from that; for in those books was the end of the Messiah, viz. Daniel 9: 26. 13.”
“Jerusalem also might be seen, -- the words of the Chaldee paraphrast, upon”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘paraphrast’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pustule, purulence, pushful, purser, purpureal, putative, purpure, purpresture, purloin, purline, purlieu, purlicue and 1766 more...
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bilby's Words
pandemic, whirl, guffaw, ethereal, feisty, dunt, ephemeral, pule, flipergebet, prink, maunder, gammon and 1023 more...
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Ada, or Ardor
I only started dog-earing 2/5 of the way through, so I'll have to re-read at some point in order to complete this list.
fatidic, herbarium, volitation, plafond, pseudopodal, hongry, dolent, dackel, fubsy, hurdies, palpebral, twayblade and 98 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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translation
translationese, dragoman, literal translation, word-for-word tra..., simultaneous tran..., targum, chuchotage, transliteration, sound translation, paraphrase, paraphrast, interlanguage
Tweets
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mialuthien A paraphrast is "one of those conversationalists always paraphrasing their own words; that is, a paraphraser, who repeats things in different ways, which is to say, he or she expresses the meaning in yet another fashion, or, as it were, simplifies and rephrases the sentence in order to clarify, in a word, by paraphrasing" – The Insomniac’s Dictionary: The Last Word on the Odd Word by Paul Hellweg. See also paraphraser. Jul 26, 2008
yarb ...merely one of those sweet-sounding translations which reveal a paraphrast's crass counterfeit as soon as you look up the original.
- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor. May 17, 2008
mollusque One who paraphrases. Dec 16, 2007