paraphrased
Meaning
of Paraphrase
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Examples
Americans tend to apply quotations when signifying doubt of veracity (sarcastically or seriously), to imply another meaning to a word or to imply a cynical take on a paraphrased quotation, without punctuation at all.
Cato, De agricultura, CLVI, CLVII; the passages are paraphrased by Pliny the Elder.
Eknath Easwaran has paraphrased the term as "the coiled power," a force which ordinarily rests at the base of the spine, described as being "coiled there like a serpent".
It should be noted that modern views of plagiarism did not apply in the 16th century; authors frequently copied and paraphrased passages without acknowledgement, especially from the classics.
He was the first to print a paraphrased edition of Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos in Basel, 1554.
During these years, occasionally a paraphrased translation from the Arabic, which itself had been translated from Greek and Syriac, might make its way to the West for scholarly study.