a. [ad. late L. tropologicus (Jerome, a. 400), = late Gr. τροπολογικός (c. 1160), f. τρόπος trope: see -LOGIC. Cf. F. tropologique (Godef., Compl.).] = next (in either sense).
c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., II. 277. Þe þridde witt is tropologik, þat bitokeneþ witt of vertues. Ibid. (1388), Gen. Prol. Bks. Proph., 226. Moral ether tropologik [vndurstondyng of scripture] techith what we owen to do to fle vices, and kepe vertues.
1677. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, II. III. 153. These mystic Divines glorie in their Tropologic, Anagogic and Allegoric explication of Scripture: Neither is there any so plain, literal, or historic, but they have some tropologic or mystic sense for it.
1884. Expositor, Jan., 45. The three traditional divisions of the mystic sense into allegoric, tropologic or moral, and anagogic or spiritual.
