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TROPOLOGY Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. a : a figurative mode of speech or writing b : a mode of biblical interpretation stressing a moral meaning inhering in the metaphorical character of ...
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tropology - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
(theology, philosophy) The interpretation of scripture or other work in order to educe moral or figurative meaning; a treatise of such interpretation.
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TROPOLOGY Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
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 ...
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tropology
tropology (trəʊˈpɒlədʒɪ) [ad. late L. tropologia (Jerome, a 400), a. late Gr. τροπολογία (Justin Martyr, a 160), f. τρόπος trope: see -logy. Cf. F. tropologie (a 1300 in Godef. Compl.).] 1. ‘A speaking by tropes’ (Blount, 1656); the use of metaphor in speech or writing; figurative discourse.1519 W. ...
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TROPOLOGY definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
1. the use of tropes or figurative language 2. a method of considering or interpreting Scripture in a figurative, moralistic way rather than in a literal sense.
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Tropological reading - Wikipedia
Tropological reading or "moral sense" is a Christian tradition, theory, and practice of interpreting the figurative meaning of the Bible.
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Tropological reading
In the conception of the Church Fathers, the definitions of "allegory" and "tropology" were very close, until Middle Ages where the Church made a clearer This Latin term was adopted in medieval French as tropologie, and English developed the form tropology in the fifteenth century through the simultaneous
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tropology | definition for kids - Wordsmyth Children's Dictionary
definition 1: the use of tropes or figurative language in writing. ; definition 2: a type of biblical interpretation that emphasizes the morally uplifting nature ...
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tropology, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
OED's earliest evidence for tropology is from before 1460, in the writing of Osbern Bokenham, poet and Augustinian friar. tropology is of multiple origins. ...
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Tropology Definition & Meaning - YourDictionary
A method of considering or interpreting Scripture in a figurative, moralistic way rather than in a literal sense. Webster's New World. Similar definitions ...
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TROPOLOGIES definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
1. rhetoric the use of figurative language in speech or writing 2. Christian theology the educing of moral or figurative meanings from the Scriptures.
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tropologize
tropologize, v. rare—1. (trəʊˈpɒlədʒaɪz) [f. as tropology + -ize.] trans. To convert by a trope or metaphor; to use in a tropological sense.1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §33. 520 If Athena or Minerva be tropologized into Prudence, then let the Pagans show what substantial essence it hath, or th...
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Frank Ankersmit
realiteit, Groningen: Historische Uitgeverij Groningen, 1990
De historische ervaring, Groningen: Historische Uitgeverij Groningen, 1993
History and Tropology
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tropological
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, t...
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Medieval Exegesis
primary subject matter, as its subtitle suggests, is the development of the four-fold method of scriptural interpretation, i.e., historia, allegory, tropology
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