Rare a person who puts a piece of writing into another literary form, as prose into verse
Origin of metaphrast
Classical Greek metaphrast?s: see metaphrasemetaphrast
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metaphrast
noun
One who renders a text into a different form, as by recasting prose in verse.
Origin of metaphrast
Medieval Greek metaphrastēs from Greek metaphrazein to translate ; see metaphrase .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural metaphrasts)
- A person who uses metaphrase to re-cast a text in a different form, for example from poetry to prose.
- A metaphrast has re-written Ian McEwan's book Atonement as a poem.
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