metaphrase

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"Translation, therefore," says Dryden, "is not so loose as paraphrase, nor so close as metaphrase."

From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel

All translation, I suppose, may be reduced to these three heads—First, that of metaphrase, or turning an author, word by word, and line by line, from one language into another.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

But most men, little recking what a small portion of the original they were reading, satisfied themselves with the Anglo French epitome and metaphrase.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Hear Dryden prosing away upon paraphrase, and metaphrase, and imitation, in his very best style.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

The way I have taken is not so strait as metaphrase, nor so loose as paraphrase; some things, too, I have omitted, and sometimes have added of my own.

From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by Dryden, John