tropoˈlogically, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a tropological manner (in either sense of the adj.).
| 1549 Chaloner Erasm. Praise Folly N iv b, Moralisyng the same bothe Allegorically, Tropologically, and Anegogically. 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §32. 512 This was the General opinion concerning the Greekish Fables, that some of them were Physically, and some Tropologically Allegorical. 1730 Waterland Script. Vind. Pref. 18 The Law about the Sabbath..may be supposed..tropologically to denote the Rest of the Soul and its Cessation from Sin. 1888 Schaff Hist. Chr. Ch. VI. i. xxxii. 139 Jerusalem means..allegorically the good, tropologically virtue, anagogically reward. |