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What does paraphrastic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Pertaining to a paraphrase.
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The extract illustrates the paraphrastic nature of parts of the translation.
This mental capacity is most likely to be acquired by the regular and persevering use of the paraphrastic exercise.
The Syriac text, made without doubt from the Hebrew, though often paraphrastic is often suggestive.
The following paragraphs contain an abbreviated and paraphrastic translation of the preface.
The remaining versions are paraphrastic and less accurate, and are guilty of additions and omissions.
The Latin was sufficiently correct, but the version was paraphrastic, which I observed.

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