All things considered, if my parents had given me a name that spelled "toilet" backwards sans "s," I might be a little on the wonky side meself; it was Marshall McLuhan a huge EliotiCan fan, after all, who noted, paraphrastically, in Understanding Media, "For the name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers." ❋ Frank Wilson (2008)
Kitten essayed a few eloquent twitches, paraphrastically speaking, and felt up to the task. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1973)
Walter Scott as specimens of the bard, and may be found paraphrastically rendered in a prose version, in the _Quarterly Review_, vol. xlv., p. 371, and in the notes to the last edition of "The Highland Drover," in ❋ Various (N/A)
Psalms is described as "paraphrastically translated," and it is worthy of note that Cowley, in his attack on the practice of too literal translation, should have chosen this part of Sandys 'work as illustrative of the methods which he condemns. ❋ Flora Ross Amos (N/A)
In this list three poets are not spoken of directly by name, but, from metrical or other reasons, are alluded to paraphrastically. ❋ Anonymous (1902)
Others express the sense paraphrastically, thus: ` Habitation of God in virtue of the indwelling of the Spirit. ' ❋ 1797-1878 (1860)
In 1612, Chapman published "Petrarch's Seven Penitentiall Psalms, paraphrastically translated: with other philosophical poems, and a Hymne to Christ upon the Crosse," a small 8vo. dedicated to Sir Thomas Philips, Master of the Rolls. ❋ Unknown (1857)
Thus somewhat weakly and paraphrastically rendered by ❋ Charles Mackay (1851)
"Boiam terere" may mean either "to have the prisoner's collar on," or, paraphrastically, "to be coupled with a Boian woman." ❋ Titus Maccius Plautus (1847)
Beck shook his head mysteriously, and without answering the question, resumed the tale, which we must thus paraphrastically continue to deliver. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
[27] The words in italics attempt to convey paraphrastically a new construction of a sentence which has puzzled the commentators, and met with many and contradictory interpretations. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
Licquet is paraphrastically warm in his version, here. ❋ Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1811)
Purpurea intexti tollant aulæa Britanni; or, as Dryden translates it, somewhat paraphrastically, but not less in the spirit of the prophet than of the poet, -- ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)
I. "[Greek text]" Which, for the sake of women, and those few gentlemen who do not understand Greek, I have rendered somewhat paraphrastically in the vernacular: -- "No man can doubt but that the education of youth ought to be the principal care of every legislator; by the neglect of which, great mischief accrues to the civil polity in every city." ❋ Henry Fielding (1730)
The Persian paraphrastically expounds it, Go ye and reduce all Nations to my Faith and Religion. ❋ 1637-1708 (1712)
Amplified, augmented, and delivered paraphrastically in verse; by. ❋ William Congreve (1699)
