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What is a paraphrast?

What is a paraphrast? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (rare) someone who paraphrases
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But Jonathan, he adds, takes on him the liberty of a paraphrast.
The brazen serpent was called the Word by the chaldee paraphrast.
The word in these two texts, usually translated shoe by the chaldee paraphrast, in the latter is rendered glove.
In 1491 he traveled to Venice, ostensibly to meet Ermolao Barbaro, who was famous as an eloquent translator of Themistius, the fourth-century paraphrast of Aristotle.
In short, FitzGerald was more properly a paraphrast than a translator.
Except in inserting the prayer and the Benedicite, the paraphrast draws only from the canonical part of the book of Daniel.

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