| 单词 |
metaphrast |
| 释义 |
metaphrast|ˈmɛtəfræst|
[ad. Gr. µεταϕράστης, f. µεταϕράζειν to translate, f. µετα- meta- + ϕράζειν to speak.]
One who renders a composition into a different literary form, e.g. by turning prose into verse, or one metre into another; also, † a translator.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 68 Simeon that great Metaphrast. 1642Cudworth Lord's Supper 13 For so both the Syriack Metaphrast expounds it..and the Arabick. a1695Wood Fasti Oxon. (1815) 516 George Sandys, esq.; the famous traveller and excellent poetical metaphrast. 1778Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry II. 190 He [Symeon] obtained the distinguishing appellation of the Metaphrast, because..he modernised the more antient narratives of the miracles and martyrdoms..for the use of the Greek church. 1896J. W. Mackail Lat. Lit. (ed. 2) 128 The later metaphrasts, who occupied themselves with turning heroic into elegiac poems by inserting a pentameter between each two lines. |
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