Definition of "periphrased" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of periphrase. (verb)

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• "In the Latin the idea of servitude implies that of subordination of man to things; and when later feudal law declared the serf attached to the glebe, it only periphrased the literal meaning of the word servus. ["