tropological, a.
(trɒpəʊˈlɒdʒɪkəl)
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
Belonging to or involving tropology.
1. Metaphorical, figurative: = tropical 4.
| 1555 Eden Decades 44 margin, Here nedeth sum tropologicall interpretour. 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. iii. iv. i. iii. (1628) 607 Tropological, allegorical expositions, to salve all appearances. 1862 Neale Hymns East. Ch. 24 The ingenuity of some tropological applications. |
2. Applied to a secondary sense or interpretation of Scripture, relating or applied to conduct or morals.
| 1528 Tindale Obed. Chr. Man 129 They devide y⊇ scripture in to iiij senses, y⊇ literall, tropologicall, allegoricall, anagogicall. 1607 R. C[arew] tr. Estienne's World of Wonders 255 To reduce all they haue to say, to certaine Allegoricall, Anagogicall, and Tropologicall senses. 1734 Waterland Doctr. Trinity vii. §6. 438 Such a kind of Exercise I take many of those Allegorical Comments (Those especially of the Tropological kind) to have been. 1882–3 Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 784 The moral, or tropological [sense of Scripture] teaches what to do. |