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What does paraphrastic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Pertaining to a paraphrase.
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Many of the details in the Triumph are paraphrastic repetitions from Titian's three Bacchanals.
Grundtvigs translation4 had been so paraphrastic as often to obscure the sense, and always the spirit, of the original.
The following paragraphs contain an abbreviated and paraphrastic translation of the preface.
Warburton, to evade Voltaire's criticism, put a strained and paraphrastic interpretation upon Pope's lines.
The remaining versions are paraphrastic and less accurate, and are guilty of additions and omissions.
In the Small Catechism, his explanations of both the First Commandment and the Sixth break the normal paraphrastic nature of the work.

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