— metaphrastic, metaphrastical , adj. — metaphrastically , adv.
/met"euh frast'/ , n.
a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.
[ 1600-10; MGk metaphrástes one who translates, equiv. to * metaphrad-, base of metaphrázein to translate (see META, PHRASE) + -tes agent suffix ]