tropology

American  

[troh-pol-uh-jee] / troʊˈpɒl ə dʒi /

noun

plural

tropologies

1. the use of figurative language in speech or writing.

2. a treatise on figures of speech or tropes.

3. the use of a Scriptural text so as to give it a moral interpretation or significance apart from its direct meaning.

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tropology British  

/ trɒˈpɒlədʒɪ /

noun

1. rhetoric the use of figurative language in speech or writing

2. Christian theol the educing of moral or figurative meanings from the Scriptures

3. a treatise on tropes or figures of speech

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Other Word Forms

• tropologic adjective
• tropological adjective
• tropologically adverb

Etymology

Origin of tropology

1510–20; < Late Latin tropologia < Greek tropología. See trope, -o-, -logy

Example Sentences

He speaks of them as searching carefully into the writers of history, as having a knowledge of ancient law and chronography, and in writing, of the rules of grammar and orthography, punctuation, metre, together with the use of allegory and tropology; all of which goes to prove that the field of secular knowledge was not particularly limited for nuns in those days.

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