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Paraphrast′ic, -al, of the nature of a paraphrase: more clear and ample than the original passage: free, loose, diffuse.—adv.

They could hardly do less on the principles they have adopted, while yet they feel constrained to concede that, though not belonging to the original Gospel, the excluded words do not, on the other hand, read like the invention of a paraphrast.

In short, FitzGerald was more properly a paraphrast than a translator.

The Chaldee Paraphrast, observing that some especial presence of God is expressed in the words, Gen. iii.

But Jonathan, he adds, takes on him the liberty of a paraphrast.