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Definition of Tropological
1. Adjective. Relating to or involving the interpretation of literature focusing on the ethical lesson or moral of the story. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tropological
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Tropological
1. Characterised by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical. Tropolog"ically. Origin: Gr., cf. F. Tropologique. See Tropology. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tropological
Literary usage of Tropological
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... things visible to a knowledge of the Trinity. gorical, and moral meanings); "Explanatio
in Canti- cum Beatae Mariac" (allegorical and tropological). ..."
2. Historical Commentaries on the State of Christianity During the First Three by Johann Lorenz Mosheim, Robert Studley Vidal, James Murdock (1854)
"... the literal, the allegorical, the tropological, and the analogical. The first
three of these are noticed by Justin Martyr, (Dial, ..."
3. The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture: A Critical, Historical, and Dogmatic by George Trumbull Ladd (1883)
"Four meanings of Sacred Scripture — the historical, the allegorical, the
tropological, and the anagogic — were discovered by other writers of the two ..."
4. Theological Propædeutic: A General Introduction to the Study of Theology by Philip Schaff, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1893)
"The tropological sense pertaineth to good manners (say they), ... Tropological and
anagogical are terms of their own feigning, and altogether unnecessary. ..."
5. Practical Handbook for the Study of the Bible and of Bible Literature by Michael Seisenberger (1911)
"We may say, therefore, that the allegorical interpretation concerns faith; the
tropological, morals; and the anagogical, hope; or the allegorical is de ..."
6. A Review of the Baptismal Controversy by James Bowling Mozley (1883)
"The tropological meaning of a term is a meaning founded upon a moral use and
application of its literal meaning. Thus the " circumcision," mentioned in the ..."
7. The Works of the English Reformers: William Tyndale and John Frith by William Tyndale, John Frith, Thomas Russell (1831)
"Tropological and anagogical are terms of their own feigning, ... For tropological
is but an allegory of manners, and anagogical, an allegory of hope. ..."
8. Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy by William Tyndale, Henry Walter (1848)
"THEY divide the scripture into four senses, the literal, tropological, allegorical,
... The tropological sense pertaineth to good manners (say they), ..."
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