Metaphrast Definition
mĕtə-frăst
noun
A person who puts a piece of writing into another literary form, as prose into verse.
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Metaphrast
Noun
Singular:
metaphrast
Plural:
metaphrastsOrigin of Metaphrast
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Medieval Greek metaphrastēs from Greek metaphrazein to translate metaphrase
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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