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tropology

[troh-pol-uh-jee]

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noun

plural

tropologies

the use of figurative language in speech or writing.
a treatise on figures of speech or tropes.
the use of a Scriptural text so as to give it a moral interpretation or significance apart from its direct meaning.

tropology

/ �ٰ�ɒˈ��ɒ��ə��ɪ /

noun

rhetoric the use of figurative language in speech or writing
Christian theol the educing of moral or figurative meanings from the Scriptures
a treatise on tropes or figures of speech

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Other Word Forms

tropologic adjective
tropological adjective
tropologically adverb
ˌ�ٰ��Ǳ��ˈ��ǲ�� adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of tropology¹

1510–20; < Late Latin tropologia < Greek �ٰ��Ǳ�Ǳ��ǲ�í��. See trope, -o-, -logy

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Word History and Origins

Origin of tropology¹

C16: via Late Latin from Greek tropalogia ; see _trope , _-logy

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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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