metaphor (meta for)

[=F. métaphore = Sp. metáfora = Pg. metaphor a = It. meta for a, 3734 I'm somewhat dull, still, in the manly art Of phrase and metaphrase. metaplasm metaphrase (met'a-frāz), v . t.; pret. and pp. metaphrased , ppr. metaphrasing . [ metaphrase , n.] To translate literally; turn into exactly corresponding words: as, to metaphrase Latin poetry. metaphrasis (me-taf'rā-sis), n. [NL.: see metaphrase .] Same as metaphrase . Metaphrasis is to take some notable place out of a good Poete, and turn the same sens into meter, or into other wordes in Prose. = Sp . metafrasta =Pg. metaphrastes , μετα φράστης, one who changes from one style to an other other, George Sandys, Esq., the famous traveller and excellent poetical metaphrast . Wood , Fasti Oxon., p. 1285. practical cognition, under cognition. - Metaphysical def in it i on, a definition by genus and difference. - Metaphysical hypothesis, in older writers, a supposition that something really exists, thus comprehending scientific hypotheses generally; by positivist writers used to denote an unverifiable hypothesis, a hypothesis concerning things in themselves as distinguished from phenomena. - Metaphysical method. See method. - Metaphysical mode of expre ion, the expre ion of a fact by means of abstract nouns, instead of concrete nouns and adjectives.Metaphysical partition, the mental separation of any thing into parts whose separate existence is impo ible.Metaphysical whole. ( a ) A species conceived as com pounded of its genus and specific difference. (b) A whole of comprehension, or a logical term conceived as compounded of its predicates. (c) A whole of comprehension more sense; natural any whole which the subject is viewed as the whole of which the predicates are parts. metaphysically (met-a-fiz'i-kal-i), adv. 1. From a metaphysical point of view; by metaphysical methods; as regards metaphysics. transport; your allegorie by a duplicitie of meaning or di imulation vnder couert and darke intendments? Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 128. Whatever here seems beauteous, seem'd to be But a faint Metaphor of Thee. Cowley, The Mistre , Not Fair. A metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home and imbed it in the memory. +-ic.] Close or literal in translation. Maximus Planudes, who has the merit of having familiarised to his countrymen many Latin cla ics of the lower empire, by metaphrastic versions. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, II. 169. metaphrastical (met-a-fras'ti-kal), a . [ meta phrastic phrastic + + -al .] Same as metaphrastic . metaphysic (met-a-fiz'ik), a. and n. Lowell, Democracy. Mixed metaphor, a figurative expre ion in which two or more metaphors are confused, as in the following quotation: Where--still to use your lordship's tropes - The level of obedience slopes Upward and downward, as the stream Of hydra faction kicks the beam! T. Moore, To Lord Castlereagh. =Syn. Comparison, Allegory, etc. See simile. metaphoric (met-a-for'ik), a. [= F. métapho rique = Sp. metafórico = Pg. meta pho rico = It. metaforico,