metaphrast noun. ['mɛtǝfrast] E17.
[Greek metaphrastēs, metaphrazein, formed as METAPHRASE.]
A person who puts a composition into a different literary form, e.g. by turning prose into verse or one metre into another. Formerly also, a translator.

■ meta'phrastic adjective [Greek metaphrastikos] of the nature of (a) metaphrase L18.

■ meta'phrastically adverb by way of a metaphrase L16.

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