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What does paraphrastic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Pertaining to a paraphrase.
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In the Small Catechism, his explanations of both the First Commandment and the Sixth break the normal paraphrastic nature of the work.
This mental capacity is most likely to be acquired by the regular and persevering use of the paraphrastic exercise.
The Latin was sufficiently correct, but the version was paraphrastic, which I observed.
For our paraphrastic procedure to be comprehensive, it must work with contexts containing explicitly comparative locutions.
Many of the details in the Triumph are paraphrastic repetitions from Titian's three Bacchanals.
The following paragraphs contain an abbreviated and paraphrastic translation of the preface.

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