a. [f. as prec. + -AL.] Belonging to or involving tropology.

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  1.  Metaphorical, figurative: = TROPICAL 4.

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1555.  Eden, Decades, 44, margin. Here nedeth sum tropologicall interpretour.

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1621.  Burton, Anat. Mel., III. iv. I. iii. (1628), 607. Tropological, allegorical expositions, to salve all appearances.

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1862.  Neale, Hymns East. Ch., 24. The ingenuity of some tropological applications.

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  2.  Applied to a secondary sense or interpretation of Scripture, relating or applied to conduct or morals.

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1528.  Tindale, Obed. Chr. Man, 129. They devide ye scripture in to iiij senses, ye literall, tropologicall, allegoricall, anagogicall.

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1607.  R. C[arew], trans. Estienne’s World of Wonders, 255. To reduce all they haue to say, to certaine Allegoricall, Anagogicall, and Tropologicall senses.

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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.

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1882–3.  Schaff’s Encycl. Relig. Knowl., I. 784. The moral, or tropological [sense of Scripture] teaches what to do.

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