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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'periphrastic' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions periphrastic adjective  expressed in more word, words than are necessary 1916 Martin Brown Ruudhttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/16416/16416-8.txt : :As poetry it does not measure up to Aasen; as translation it is , arbitrary, not at all faithful. (grammar) characterized by periphrase or circumlocution. : "The daughter of the man" may be used as a synonym for "the man's daughter" indirect in naming an entity; circumlocutory 1870 Edward Bulwer-Lytton, in Vril: The Power of the Coming Racehttp://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bulwer/1871/coming-race.htm : :In writing, they deem it irreverent to express the Supreme Being ... and in conversation they generally use a epithet, such as the All-Good. Etymology: From the periphrasis. Cf. périphrastique.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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