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PRONUNCIATION OF METAPHRASTIC

metaphrastic  [ˌmetəˈfræstɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF METAPHRASTIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Metaphrastic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES METAPHRASTIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of metaphrastic in the English dictionary

The definition of metaphrastic in the dictionary is of or relating to a literal translation; literally translated.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH METAPHRASTIC


antiphrastic
ˌæntɪˈfræstɪk
drastic
ˈdræstɪk
elastic
ɪˈlæstɪk
enthusiastic
ɪnˌθjuːzɪˈæstɪk
fantastic
fænˈtæstɪk
gymnastic
dʒɪmˈnæstɪk
holophrastic
ˌhɒləˈfræstɪk
hudibrastic
ˌhjuːdɪˈbræstɪk
hypoplastic
ˌhaɪpəʊˈplæstɪk
mastic
ˈmæstɪk
neoplastic
ˌniːəʊˈplæstɪk
paraphrastic
ˌpærəˈfræstɪk
pederastic
ˌpɛdəˈræstɪk
peirastic
paɪˈræstɪk
periphrastic
ˌpɛrɪˈfræstɪk
plastic
ˈplæstɪk
sarcastic
sɑːˈkæstɪk
scholastic
skəˈlæstɪk
stochastic
stɒˈkæstɪk
thermoplastic
ˌθɜːməʊˈplæstɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE METAPHRASTIC

metaphoric
metaphorical
metaphorically
metaphoricalness
metaphorist
metaphosphate
metaphosphoric acid
metaphrase
metaphrasis
metaphrast
metaphrastical
metaphrastically
metaphysic
metaphysical
metaphysically
metaphysician
metaphysicise
metaphysicist
metaphysicize
metaphysics

WORDS THAT END LIKE METAPHRASTIC

antineoplastic
bombastic
domestic
dynastic
dysplastic
foam plastic
hyperplastic
inelastic
lymphoblastic
megaloblastic
monastic
myeloblastic
orgastic
orgiastic
phantastic
reinforced plastic
Silastic
spastic
trophoblastic
unenthusiastic
viscoelastic

Synonyms and antonyms of metaphrastic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «metaphrastic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF METAPHRASTIC

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The translations of metaphrastic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «metaphrastic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

metaphrastic
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

metaphrastic
570 millions of speakers

English

metaphrastic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

metaphrastic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

metaphrastic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

metaphrastic
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

metaphrastic
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

metaphrastic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

metaphrastic
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Metaphrastic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

metaphrastic
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

metaphrastic
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

metaphrastic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Metaphrastic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

metaphrastic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

metaphrastic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मेटाफ्रास्टिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

metaphrastic
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

metaphrastic
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

metaphrastic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

metaphrastic
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

metaphrastic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

metaphrastic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

metaphrastic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

metaphrastic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

metaphrastic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of metaphrastic

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «METAPHRASTIC»

The term «metaphrastic» is barely ever used and occupies the 198.985 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «METAPHRASTIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «metaphrastic» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «metaphrastic» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about metaphrastic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «METAPHRASTIC»

Discover the use of metaphrastic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to metaphrastic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Symeon Metaphrastes: Rewriting and Canonization
Though criticism was at times heard, the Metaphrastic menologion was a great success in Byzantium. The hundreds of manuscripts indicate a wide distribution, and Symeon's laudators were many. But reactions to the Metaphrastic collection  ...
Christian Høgel, 2002
2
The Making of a Saint: The Life, Times and Sanctification of ...
At first glance, Neophytos appears to have used the Metaphrastic Life and to have abridged it by using two devices: first, by condensing a scene, so that it is reproduced with all its essential details intact but in far fewer words28 ( occasionally ...
Catia Galatariotou, 2004
3
Biblico-Metaphrastic Annotations; or, a mite thrown in ...
Timothy Metcalf SHANN. AUTHOR'S PREFACE . Most of the notes which were the foundation of the following remarks, have lain by little observed for nearly twenty years. In the state they were in, on a scrap or two of paper, liable to be swept ...
Timothy Metcalf SHANN, 1855
4
Byzantinum in the Year 1000
Unfortunately only a handful of Metaphrastic manuscripts are inscribed with the names of the commissioners or of the original institutions for which the given manuscript was made. We are, therefore, forced to approach the issue from several ...
Paul Magdalino, 2003
5
The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography: ...
Metaphrastic texts and the Greek Barlaam and Ioasaph.32 Theimpactofthe Metaphrastic Menologion wastremendous, especiallyinthe two centuries followingits production. Around700 manuscripts containing a Metaphrasticvolumeare known ...
Professor Stephanos Efthymiadis, 2014
6
Greek Literature in the Byzantine Period: Greek Literature
Sometime the pre-Metaphrastic Life, its intermediate reworking and the subsequent Metaphrastic version are all preserved —— this is the case of the three Lives36 of John the Almsgiver — which suggests that Byzantine audiences were ...
Gregory Nagy, Jones Professor of Classical Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Director Center for Hellenic Studies Gregory Nagy, 2014
7
Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: ...
Concerning how Symeon and his team rework the Passion of Sergius and Bacchus in particular, see Christian Hegel, ”The Reduction of Symeon Metaphrastes: Literary Aspects of the Metaphrastic Martyria," Metaphrasis: Redactions and ...
Albrecht Classen, Marilyn Sandidge, 2011
8
The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography
4 See Høgel, Symeon Metaphrastes, 127ff.; Høgel, 'Hagiography under the Macedonians: The Two Recensions of the Metaphrastic Menologion', 223, where he suggests that the official 'publication' of the Metaphrastic Menologion was ...
Stephanos Efthymiadis, 2011
9
Critica Et Philologica, Nachleben, First Two Centuries, ...
This is the metaphrastic version of the Hypomnesticon (which is a description of the deeds and martyrdom of Maximus the Confessor, his disciple Anastasius, and Pope Martin I). The Greek keimena (i. e. primary) version of the Hypomnesticon, ...
Maurice Frank Wiles, Edward Yarnold, 2001
10
On Medieval and Renaissance Slavic Writing: Selected Essays
Byzantine hagiography of the Metaphrastic and post-Metaphrastic kind seems to have flourished in Bulgaria only in the Second Bulgarian Empire, in other words from the end of the 1 2th century, after a period of intensive Byzantinization.
Henrik Birnbaum, 1974

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «METAPHRASTIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term metaphrastic is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Armchair Analyst: Baca Mexico's missing Olympic piece?
But that play encapsulated what Baca is about on the pitch, and tells a big part of metaphrastic effect he's had on this San Jose team. «Major League Soccer, Apr 12»
2
The Country's Acclaim for Depeche Mode May or May Not Explain …
This metaphrastic register—heaping up recondite vocabulary, obscure obsessions, and highbrow observations—may strain Theroux's voice on ... «PopMatters, Nov 11»
3
From the Øιλοκαλíα to Franny's pea-green book.
... in the Greek Philokalia to St Neilos; the selection from the Makarian Homilies abandons the Metaphrastic version reproduced by Nikodimos, ... «The Fortnightly Review, Jun 11»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Metaphrastic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/metaphrastic>. May 2024 ».
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