[f. TROPE + -ING1.] a. Figurative or metaphorical speech or conversation. b. The composition or use of tropes (sense 5).
1678. Dryden, Kind Keeper, V. i. Will you leave your Troping, and let me pass?
1907. J. M. Manly, in Mod. Philol., IV. 593. It was an age of troping. Tropes—that is, insertions in the authorized liturgy—were composed by the hundreds, and of all conceivable varieties.
