The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paraphrastic \Par`a*phras"tic\, Paraphrastical \Par`a*phras"tic*al\, a. [Gr.?: cf. F. paraphrastique.] Paraphrasing; of the nature of paraphrase; explaining, or translating in words more clear and ample than those of the author; not literal; free. -- Par`a*phras"tic*al*ly, adv.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from Medieval Latin paraphrasticus, from Greek paraphrastikos, from paraphrastes "one who paraphrases," from paraphrazein (see paraphrase (n.)). Related: Paraphrastical (1540s).
Wiktionary
a. Pertaining to a paraphrase.
WordNet
adj. altered by paraphrasing
Usage examples of "paraphrastic".
I had never heard an objectionable meaning attached, were totally interdicted, and the strangest paraphrastic sentences substituted.
On our own part, we beg to add, that we understand the style of the translator is more paraphrastic than can be approved by those who are acquainted with the singularly curious original.
This is a partly paraphrastic and conjectural translation of a very obscure sentence of Jordanes.