Definition of Metaphrastic. Meaning of Metaphrastic. Synonyms of Metaphrastic

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Metaphrastic. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Metaphrastic and, of course, Metaphrastic synonyms and on the right images related to the word Metaphrastic.

Definition of Metaphrastic

Metaphrastic
Metaphrastic Met`a*phras"tic, Metaphrastical Met`a*phras"tic*al, a. [Gr. ?.] Close, or literal.

Meaning of Metaphrastic from wikipedia

- originally written in Low German and translated into High German by an over-metaphrastic translator. Supporters of Aramaic primacy—the view that the Christian...
- Ragavendra R. Baliga, FACC, FACP, FRCP (Edin) is a Professor of Medicine at The Ohio State University School of Medicine in Columbus, Ohio. He is a consulting...
- 4th century. Very meager information about his life is preserved in a metaphrastic work: “Life and Deeds of the Martyred Priest Basil.” He fought against...
- A remarkably high proportion of Polish terms actually have precise metaphrastic equivalents in English, traceable to the fact that both these Indo-European...
- 18th-century synaxary, but four of them exist in original form, as well a metaphrastic version. The dating as well as authorship of these texts is controversial...
- beheaded. This seems to have set the standard for later depictions. The Metaphrastic biography is illustrated in British Library Add MS 11870 and Biblioteca...
- him with ****n Beri (****nius "the Monk"; fl. 1100), the author of the metaphrastic revision of The Life of Saint Nino. According to historic tradition ****n...
- in his absence. The 11th-century Georgian monk ****n, the author of metaphrastical reduction of "The life of St. Nino" and tutor of King David IV of Georgia...
- including some Polish idioms that Skarbek (or Kowerski) translated metaphrastically – literally – into English. Krystyna Skarbek Poglish [1] Timesonline...