Word of the Day for Wednesday, August 31, 2011
metaphrastic \met-uh-FRAST-ik\, adjective:
Having the quality of a literary work that has been translated or changed from one form to another, as prose into verse.
The B.O.'s speeches are a metaphrastic transformation of reality to delusion!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
In a word, the whole place was involved in the maze of a metaphrastic mystery; it enchanted our wanderers, and tempted them into fields of speculation.-- Arthur Edward Waite, Belle and the Dragon
By this maneuver, the mind is protected from clutter - mind and body, separated out, are actually coerced into a negatively metaphrastic liaison.-- Lesley Stern, The Smoking Book
Metaphrastic comes into English from the medieval Greek metaphrastes, "one who translates."
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