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tro⋅pol⋅o⋅gy

  [troh-pol-uh-jee]
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–noun, plural -gies for 2.
1. the use of figurative language in speech or writing.
2. a treatise on figures of speech or tropes.
3. the use of a Scriptural text so as to give it a moral interpretation or significance apart from its direct meaning.
Origin:
1510–20; < LL tropologia < Gk tropología. See trope, -o-, -logy

Related forms:
trop⋅o⋅log⋅ic  [trop-uh-loj-ik, troh-puh-] , trop⋅o⋅log⋅i⋅cal, adjective
trop⋅o⋅log⋅i⋅cal⋅ly, adverb
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tro·pol·o·gy   (trō-pŏl'ə-jē)   
n.   pl. tro·pol·o·gies
  1. The use of tropes in speech or writing.
  2. A mode of biblical interpretation insisting on the morally edifying sense of tropes in the Scriptures.

[Late Latin tropologia, from Late Greek tropologiā : Greek tropos, trope; see trope + Greek -logiā, -logy.]
tro'po·log'ic (trō'pə-lŏj'ĭk, trŏp'ə-), tro'po·log'i·cal (-ĭ-kəl) adj., tro'po·log'i·cal·ly adv.
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