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Definition of Tropology
1. n. A rhetorical mode of speech, including tropes, or changes from the original import of the word.
Definition of Tropology
1. Noun. The use of a trope. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tropology
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Medical Definition of Tropology
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tropology
Literary usage of Tropology
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mediaeval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in by Henry Osborn Taylor (1919)
"... to those advancing in faith, the food of allegory; to the strenuous and sweating
doers of good works, satiety in the savoury refection of tropology; ..."
2. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1883)
"The spiritual sense is that in which the things signified again foreshadow other
things, and this sense is divisible into Allegory, tropology, ..."
3. A Text-book of the History of Doctrines by Karl Rudolf Hagenbach (1861)
"The moral (relative to the soul of every individual Christian). Rabanus Maurus
spoke of a fourfold sense : 1. History ; 2. Allegory; 3. tropology; 4. ..."
4. The Prophecies of Isaiah: A New Translation with Commentary and Appendices by Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1889)
"Among Christian teachers, St. Jerome probably owes much to Origen, like whom he
expatiates freely in the allegoric mysticism of 'tropology.1 His merit, ..."
5. Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages by Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Baretti (1851)
"tropology, a moral discourse. TROPO, sm. Trope, a rhetorical change of a word
from its original meaning. ..."
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